--- title: The last wetting of the hawk’s feathers delayed it so that the antel… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: The last wetting of the hawk’s feathers delayed it so that the antelope reached the hill just ahead; and there, resuming their natural shapes, the two runners came sweeping down the home-stretch, straining every nerve. Who acts: last wetting, antelope, natural shapes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last wetting, antelope, natural shapes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:3:84 # text = The last wetting of the hawk’s feathers delayed it so that the antelope reached the hill just ahead; and there, resuming their natural shapes, the two runners came sweeping down the home-stretch, straining every nerve. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 wetting wetting NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 delayed delay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 15 mark _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 antelope antelope NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 resuming resume VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 runners runner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 33 sweeping sweep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 34 down down ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 stretch stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 straining strain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **delay** | past | the last wetting of the hawk's feathers | hawk | | | | | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent it=Source | | 2 | **reach** | past | the antelope | the hill | | | | ahead *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | | 3 | **resume** | gerund | the last wetting of the hawk's feathers *not said here* | | | there | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **come** | past | antelopes's natural shapes | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sweep** | gerund | antelopes's natural shapes *not said here* | | | the home stretch | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stretch=Trajectory | | 6 | **strain** | gerund | antelopes's natural shapes *not said here* | every nerve | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nerve=Source | | 7 | **wet** | | | the hawk's feathers | | | | | nom wetting «act transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/83/) - ↑ back to [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/)