The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 52

There is no duty to which a Pueblo child is trained in which he has to be content with the bare command, “Do thus”; for each he learns a fairy tale designed to explain how people first came to know that it was right to do thus, and detailing the sad results which befell those who did otherwise.

Who acts: duty, people, it, sad results · What happens: be, train, have, do, learn, design · To what, where: Pueblo child, fairy tale, sad results · 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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duty, people, it, sad results), 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 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 duty	det
4	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 trained	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 child	compound
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trained	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trained	aux:pass
11	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 duty	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 has	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trained	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	18 content	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 content	cop
18	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 has	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 command	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 command	det
21	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 command	amod
22	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 content	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Do	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Do	punct
25	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 content	parataxis
26	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 Do	advmod
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 Do	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 learns	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 each	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 learns	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 learns	nsubj
32	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tale	det
34	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tale	compound
35	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 learns	obj
36	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 tale	acl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 explain	mark
38	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 designed	advcl
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 came	advmod
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 came	nsubj
41	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 came	advmod
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 explain	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 know	mark
44	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 came	xcomp
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 right	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 right	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 right	cop
48	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 know	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 do	mark
50	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 right	csubj
51	thus	thus	ADV	_	50 do	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 detailing	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 detailing	cc
54	detailing	detail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 learns	advcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 results	det
56	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 results	amod
57	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 detailing	obj
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 befell	nsubj
59	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 results	acl:relcl
60	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	59 befell	obj
61	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 did	nsubj
62	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 those	acl:relcl
63	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	62 did	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no duty		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	train	present · passive		a Pueblo child		to no duty	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	present	duty			which obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	duty not said here			with the bare command; content property	tree rules
5	do in a quote	infinitive				thus property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	learn	present	duty	a fairy tale		for each	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic
7	design	participle		a fairy tale not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	come	past	people			first property	tree rules
10	know	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is	past	it			right property	tree rules
12	do	to-infinitive				thus property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	detail	gerund	duty not said here	the sad results			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent result=Theme
14	befall	past	the sad results	the sad results			tree rules
15	do	past				who nsubj; otherwise property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Story-tellers, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 52