The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 34

So mother-pale above us She bends, her watch to keep, Who of her sight dear-bought the night To give her children sleep.

Who acts: mother, watch · What happens: bend, keep, buy, give, sleep, sight · To what, where: watch, sight, 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, watch), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 pale	advmod
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pale	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bends	advcl
5	above	above	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pale	obl
7	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bends	nsubj
8	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watch	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 watch	nmod:poss
11	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bends	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 watch	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sleep	punct
15	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sleep	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sight	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sight	nmod:poss
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Who	nmod
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bought	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 dear	punct
21	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sight	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bought	obl:unmarked
24	To	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 night	acl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 give	iobj
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 watch	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bend	present	mother	mother's watch			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent watch=Material
2	keep	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's watch not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	buy	participle		mother's sight not said here		night	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	give	to-infinitive			mother's children		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
5	sleep	present	mother's watch				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sight		mother				nom sight «cognition 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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 34