The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 31

But she who first had the love of children, and paid for them with pain as mother’s pay, she did not grow ugly by her sacrifice.

Who acts: mother · What happens: have, pay, not grow, love, sacrifice · To what, where: love, children

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 (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	_	5 had	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 love	det
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 love	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 paid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 paid	cc
12	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 paid	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 pain	case
16	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 pay	case
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pay	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 mother	case
20	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grow	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grow	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grow	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 grow	advmod
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	parataxis
26	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grow	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 sacrifice	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sacrifice	nmod:poss
29	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grow	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	mother	the love of children	who nsubj; first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient
2	pay	past	mother not said here		for children = child; with pain; as mother's pay	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
3	not grow	past · do-support	mother		by mother's sacrifice; ugly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sacrifice=Location
4	love			children		nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	pay		mother			nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent
6	sacrifice		mother			nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 31