The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 12
While they were eating supper, too, they sometimes spread their wings, and displayed their bright under-side.
Who acts: Woodpecker · What happens: eat, spread, display · To what, where: supper, wings
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodpecker), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spread | advcl |
| 5 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 too | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 eating | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spread | nsubj |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 spread | advmod |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spread | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 displayed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 displayed | cc |
| 16 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spread | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bright | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 displayed | xcomp |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 under | punct |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bright | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | Woodpecker | supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | Woodpecker | Woodpecker's wings | sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||
| 3 | display | past | Woodpecker not said here | bright property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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