The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 4

Once, long ago, the _ta-pó-pe_ (governor) of Acoma had a beautiful daughter, for whom many of the young men had asked in vain, for she would have none of them.

Who acts: pe _, _ · What happens: have, ask · To what, where: beautiful daughter, many, vain, none

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pe _, _), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 ago	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ago	advmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ago	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 _	det
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 _	punct
8	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pó	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ta	punct
10	pó	pó	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pe	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pó	punct
12	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 _	compound
13	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 governor	punct
15	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 _	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 governor	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Acoma	case
18	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 _	nmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 daughter	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 daughter	amod
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 asked	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 asked	obl
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 asked	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 men	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 many	nmod
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 asked	aux
32	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 vain	case
34	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 asked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 have	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 have	aux
39	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 asked	conj
40	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	39 have	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 none	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the pe _ of Acoma	a beautiful daughter		ago property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect · passive		many of the young men	vain	whom obl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have	would	_	none of Acoma			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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 North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 4

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 4