The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 4

She had neither father nor mother, sister nor brother; and in her fair form were the seeds of all humanity--of all life and love and goodness.

Who acts: P’áh · What happens: have, be, form · To what, where: father, seeds, fair form

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 (P’áh), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 father	cc:preconj
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mother	cc
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sister	punct
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	appos
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 brother	cc
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sister	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 seeds	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seeds	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 form	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 form	nmod:poss
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeds	obl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seeds	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seeds	det
19	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 humanity	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 humanity	det
22	humanity	humanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeds	nmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 life	punct
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 life	det
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeds	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 love	cc
28	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 life	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 goodness	cc
30	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 life	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	P’áh = p'áh	father nor mother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2	is a	past		the seeds and all life and love and goodness	P’áh's fair form	of all humanity; all life and love and goodness conj	tree rules
3	form		P’áh = p'áh				nom form «communication 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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 4