The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 119
And spreading his broad wings he went climbing up the spiral ladder of the sky.
Who acts: buzzard · What happens: spread, go, climb up · To what, where: broad wings, spiral ladder
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 (buzzard), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 spreading | cc |
| 2 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wings | amod |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spreading | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spreading | acl:relcl |
| 8 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 went | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 climbing | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ladder | det |
| 11 | spiral | spiral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ladder | amod |
| 12 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ladder | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spreading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund | buzzard's broad wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | buzzard | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | climb up | gerund | buzzard not said here | the spiral ladder of the sky | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme |
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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