The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 3

He had no parents, for he was created by the Trues themselves, and by them was given such extraordinary powers as were second only to their own.

Who acts: name, Trues · What happens: have, create, give, be · To what, where: parents, name, such extraordinary powers

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 (name, Trues), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 parents	det
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 created	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 created	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 created	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 created	aux:pass
9	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 Trues	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Trues	det
12	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 created	obl
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 created	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 given	cc
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	obl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux:pass
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 created	conj
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 powers	amod
21	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 powers	amod
22	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 given	obj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 own	mark
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 own	cop
25	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 own	advmod
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 own	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 own	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 given	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	name	no parents		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient
2	create	past · passive	the Trues	name	Trues = true obl	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
3	give	past · passive	Trues = true	such extraordinary powers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
4	is	past	Trues = true not said here		powers = power nmod:poss; own, second property	tree rules

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 3