The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 22

But when she heard that, the Moon-Mother wept for her strong and handsome husband, and cried:

Who acts: ear, Moon Mother · What happens: hear, weep, cry · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, Moon Mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 wept	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wept	advcl
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mother	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mother	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Moon	punct
10	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wept	nsubj
11	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 husband	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 husband	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 handsome	cc
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 strong	conj
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wept	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wept	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	ear	that		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	weep	past	the Moon Mother		for mother's strong husband	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	the Moon Mother not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Mother Moon, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 22