The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 33
For the Trues are good to her, and gave her in place of the bloom of girlhood the beauty that is only in the faces of mothers.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, give · To what, where: mother, place, faces
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 (that), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Trues | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Trues | det |
| 3 | Trues | true | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 good | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bloom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bloom | det |
| 16 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girlhood | case |
| 18 | girlhood | girlhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bloom | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beauty | det |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girlhood | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 faces | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 faces | cop |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 faces | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 faces | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 faces | det |
| 26 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beauty | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mothers | case |
| 28 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 faces | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mother | for the Trues; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | mother | place of the bloom and girlhood the beauty | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | the faces | of mothers | 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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