The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 5

His father was Old-Black-Cane, his mother was Corn-Woman, and his two sisters were Yellow-Corn-Maiden, and Blue-Corn-Maiden.

Who acts: father, mother, two sisters · What happens: be · To what, where: Corn Woman, Yellow Corn

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, mother, two sisters), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Old	cop
4	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Black	punct
6	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Old	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Cane	punct
8	Cane	Cane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Black	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Woman	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Woman	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Woman	cop
13	Corn	Corn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Woman	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Woman	punct
15	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Old	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Corn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Corn	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sisters	nmod:poss
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 sisters	nummod
20	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Corn	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Corn	cop
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Corn	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Yellow	punct
24	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Woman	conj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Maiden	punct
26	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Corn	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Maiden	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Maiden	cc
29	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Corn	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Blue	punct
31	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Maiden	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Maiden	punct
33	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Old	vocative
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kahp's father		Corn Maiden vocative; Black and Cane conj; old property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Kahp's mother	Corn Woman and Yellow Corn		tree rules
3	is a	past	Kahp's two sisters	Yellow Corn	Maiden appos	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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 5