The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 29

There was only one command their parents gave about their hunts; and that was that they must never, never go south.

Who acts: parents, that · What happens: be, give, not be · To what, where: one command

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 (parents, that), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 command	nummod
5	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl:unmarked
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 hunts	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hunts	nmod:poss
11	hunts	hunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 go	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 go	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 go	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 never	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	conj
23	south	south	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	boys's parents	one command		about boys's hunts	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	not is	must · past	that			parents = parent nsubj; go, south 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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 29