The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 129
Off flew the Buzzard, and in a few minutes returned with a little white flower.
What happens: fly, return · To what, where: Buzzard
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: 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buzzard | det |
| 4 | Buzzard | Buzzard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minutes | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 returned | obl |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flew | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 flower | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flower | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Buzzard | off property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location buzzard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | participle | minute | with a little white flower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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