The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 25

To care better for the children they moved to a little ranch some distance from the village, and there taught their two little sons all they could.

Who acts: children · What happens: care, move, teach · To what, where: little ranch, two little sons

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 (children), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 care	mark
2	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 moved	advcl
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 care	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 care	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 moved	nsubj
8	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 ranch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ranch	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ranch	amod
12	ranch	ranch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moved	obl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 distance	det
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ranch	appos
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 distance	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taught	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taught	cc
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 taught	advmod
21	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 moved	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sons	nmod:poss
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sons	nummod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sons	amod
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taught	obj
26	all	all	ADV	_	28 could	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 taught	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	care	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			for the children; well property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=Theme
2	move	past	children = child		a little ranch		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ranch=Trajectory
3	teach speech: other	past	children = child not said here	children's two little sons	there		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 25