The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 15
Each had two eagle feathers tied to the top of his spear--the token of victory.
What happens: have, tie · To what, where: two eagle feathers
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 feathers | nummod |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feathers | compound |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feathers | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 spear | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 token | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 token | det |
| 15 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 victory | case |
| 17 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 token | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | two eagle feathers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tie | participle | two eagle feathers not said here | to the top of wahn's spear and the token of victory | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to top=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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