The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 17
Always showing off their bright feathers?
What happens: show off · To what, where: bright feathers
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: 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 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 showing | advmod |
| 2 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 showing | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feathers | amod |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showing | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 showing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show off | gerund | Woodpecker's bright feathers | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feather=Recipient |
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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