The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 118

The Turkey-buzzard wept when he saw Nah-chu-rú-chu still sitting there upon the ladder, and said: “Truly it is sad for our great friend; but for me, I am afraid to go, since they who are more mighty than I have already failed; but I will try.”

Who acts: Turkey buzzard, buzzard, ladder, others · What happens: weep, see, sit, say, be, go · To what, where: chu rú, ladder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turkey buzzard, buzzard, ladder, others), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buzzard	det
2	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 buzzard	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Turkey	punct
4	buzzard	buzzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wept	nsubj
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	advcl
9	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	13 rú	discourse
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Nah	punct
11	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rú	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 chu	punct
13	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 rú	punct
15	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	17 sitting	flat:foreign
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 sitting	advmod
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 saw	ccomp
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sitting	advmod
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 ladder	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ladder	det
21	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 sad	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 sad	punct
27	Truly	truly	ADV	_	30 sad	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sad	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sad	cop
30	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 friend	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 friend	nmod:poss
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 friend	amod
34	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sad	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 afraid	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 afraid	cc
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 afraid	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 me	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 afraid	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 afraid	cop
42	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wept	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 go	mark
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 afraid	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 mighty	punct
46	since	since	SCONJ	_	51 mighty	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 mighty	nsubj
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 mighty	nsubj
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 mighty	cop
50	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	51 mighty	advmod
51	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 afraid	conj
52	than	than	SCONJ	_	56 failed	mark
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 failed	nsubj
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 failed	aux
55	already	already	ADV	_	56 failed	advmod
56	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 mighty	advcl
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 try	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 try	cc
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 try	nsubj
60	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 try	aux
61	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wept	parataxis
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 try	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	61 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the Turkey buzzard					tree rules
2	see	past	buzzard					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund		chu rú	the ladder; there	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ladder=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the Turkey buzzard not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	ladder				for our great friend; sad, truly property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	the Turkey buzzard = buzzard				for the Turkey buzzard = buzzard; afraid property	tree rules
7	go in a quote	to-infinitive	the Turkey buzzard = buzzard not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	others = other				who nsubj; mighty property	tree rules
9	fail in a quote	present · perfect	the Turkey buzzard = buzzard					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	try in a quote	future	the Turkey buzzard = buzzard					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 118