The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 5

The Trues, who are the unseen spirits that are above all, made T’hoor-íd-deh, the Sun, who was to be father of all things; and because he was alone, they made for him a companion, the first to be of maids, the first to be a wife.

Who acts: Trues, T’hoor íd deh, he · What happens: be, make · To what, where: unseen spirits, all, T’hoor íd deh, father, companion, wife

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 (Trues, T’hoor íd deh, he), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Trues	det
2	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spirits	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 spirits	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spirits	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spirits	det
7	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spirits	amod
8	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Trues	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 above	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 above	cop
11	above	above	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 spirits	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Trues	acl
15	T’hoor	t'hoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deh	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 T’hoor	punct
17	íd	íd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deh	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 deh	punct
19	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Sun	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Sun	det
22	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 deh	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 father	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 father	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 father	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	28 father	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 father	cop
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deh	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 things	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 things	det
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 father	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 made	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 made	cc
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 alone	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 alone	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 alone	cop
37	alone	alone	ADV	_	40 made	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 alone	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 made	nsubj
40	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 made	obl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 companion	det
44	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 made	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 first	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 first	det
47	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 made	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	51 maids	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 maids	cop
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 maids	case
51	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 first	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 first	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 first	det
54	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	51 maids	amod
55	to	to	PART	_	58 wife	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 wife	cop
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 wife	det
58	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 first	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Trues and the unseen spirits	the unseen spirits	all		tree rules
2	make	participle	the Trues and the unseen spirits not said here	T’hoor íd deh the Sun and father			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deh=Product
3	is a	past	T’hoor íd deh the Sun and father	father		of all things	tree rules
4	is	past	he			alone property	tree rules
5	make	past	the Trues and the unseen spirits	a companion		for him = he	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent companion=Product for he=Beneficiary
6	is	to-infinitive				of maids	tree rules
7	is a	to-infinitive		a wife			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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 5