The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 105

For if the boys had not been smoking when they had not freedom to, their grandfather would not have sent them, and all that trouble would not have come.

Who acts: boys · What happens: not smoke, have, not send, not come · To what, where: freedom, grandfather, trouble

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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	SCONJ	_	8 smoking	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 smoking	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smoking	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smoking	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 smoking	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 smoking	aux
8	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sent	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 had	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smoking	advcl
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 freedom	advmod
13	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	11 had	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 smoking	punct
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandfather	nmod:poss
17	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sent	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sent	advmod
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sent	aux
21	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 trouble	det:predet
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 trouble	det
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 come	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 sent	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not smoke a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · progressive	the boys			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	boys = boy	freedom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Patient
3	not send	would · perfect · passive		boys's grandfather	boys = boy obj	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme
4	not come	would · perfect		all trouble		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 105