The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 16

There are no heedless eyes or ears in the audience, of which I am the only white member--and a very lucky one, in that I, an “Americano,” am allowed to hear these jealously guarded stories, and to see the silent smoke-prayer which would never be made if a stranger were present.

Who acts: heedless eyes, I, only white member, stranger · What happens: be, allow, hear, guard, see, not make · To what, where: audience, only white member, guarded stories, silent smoke prayer

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heedless eyes, I, only white member, stranger), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 eyes	det
4	heedless	heedless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 ears	cc
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eyes	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 audience	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 audience	det
10	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 member	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 member	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 member	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 member	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 member	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 member	amod
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 member	amod
19	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 allowed	nsubj:pass
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 lucky	advmod
24	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 member	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 that	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 I	reparandum
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 one	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Americano	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Americano	det
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 Americano	punct
33	Americano	Americano	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 member	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Americano	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 Americano	punct
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 allowed	aux:pass
37	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 are	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 hear	mark
39	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 allowed	xcomp
40	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 stories	det
41	jealously	jealously	ADV	_	42 guarded	advmod
42	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 stories	amod
43	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 hear	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 see	cc
46	to	to	PART	_	47 see	mark
47	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 allowed	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 prayer	det
49	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 prayer	amod
50	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 prayer	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 smoke	punct
52	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 see	obj
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 made	nsubj:pass
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 made	aux
55	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	57 made	advmod
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 made	aux:pass
57	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 prayer	acl:relcl
58	if	if	SCONJ	_	62 present	mark
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 stranger	det
60	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 present	nsubj
61	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 present	cop
62	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 made	advcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	no heedless eyes or ears		the audience; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in audience=Location
2	is a	present	I	the only white member		which obl; a lucky one I parataxis; a Americano appos	tree rules
3	allow	present · passive		the only white member			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the only white member not said here	this guarded stories			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	guard	participle				jealously property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive		the silent smoke prayer			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus
7	not make	would · passive		the silent smoke prayer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
8	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a stranger			present property	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 Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 16