The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 59

And he gave her many beautiful _mantas_, and cotton wraps, and fat boots of buckskin that wrap round and round, that she might dress as the wife of a rich chief.

Who acts: rú, fat boots, Moon · What happens: give, wrap, dress · To what, where: cotton wraps, Moon

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 (rú, fat boots, Moon), 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	_	3 gave	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mantas	amod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mantas	amod
7	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mantas	amod
8	mantas	manta	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	parataxis
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 mantas	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wraps	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wraps	cc
12	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wraps	compound
13	wraps	wrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boots	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 boots	cc
16	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boots	amod
17	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 buckskin	case
19	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boots	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 wrap	nsubj
21	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 boots	acl:relcl
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 wrap	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 round	cc
24	round	round	ADV	_	22 round	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dress	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 dress	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dress	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 dress	aux
29	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wrap	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 wife	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wife	det
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dress	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 chief	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 chief	det
35	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chief	amod
36	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wife	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	rú	cotton wraps	Moon	fat boots of buckskin obl; many beautiful _ mantas parataxis	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	wrap	present	fat boots of buckskin			round property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	dress	might	Moon			as the wife of a rich chief	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 59