The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 8

He guarded them by day and she by night--only there _was_ no night, for then the Moon had two eyes, and saw as clearly as the Sun, and with glance as bright.

Who acts: He, Moon · What happens: guard, have, see · To what, where: children, two eyes

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 (He, Moon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guarded	nsubj
2	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guarded	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 she	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guarded	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 guarded	parataxis
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 guarded	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 _	cop
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 guarded	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 had	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Moon	det
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guarded	conj
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 eyes	nummod
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guarded	conj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 clearly	advmod
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	28 saw	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 Sun	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sun	det
33	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 glance	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 glance	cc
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 glance	case
37	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obl
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 bright	case
39	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 glance	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guarded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	He	children = child	day; night	with glance as bright; wife conj	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
2	have	past	the Moon	two eyes	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	see	past	He not said here			as the Sun; clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sun=Attribute

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 8