The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 35

They spoke of an old woman who lives in the south who eats children; and for that they said they would never let us go south.”

Who acts: parents, old woman, south, us · What happens: speak, live, eat, say, not let, go · To what, where: south, children, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old woman, south, us), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 south	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 south	det
11	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 eats	nsubj
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 south	acl:relcl
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eats	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 said	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 let	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 let	advmod
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	south	south	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	parents = parent			of a old woman	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	present	a old woman		the south		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location
3	eat	present	the south	children			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	parents = parent			for that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not let	would	parents = parent	us			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	us not said here			south property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 35