The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 118

As for the Spider-woman, she was already dead of shame; for she knew all that had been.

Who acts: woman, that · What happens: be, know · 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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 woman	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
4	Spider	Spider	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 woman	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Spider	punct
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dead	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 dead	advmod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 shame	case
13	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dead	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 been	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 been	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 been	aux
21	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 knew	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman	as the Spider woman; of shame; dead property	tree rules
2	know	past	woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past · perfect	that		vn exist-47.1 «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 Brave Bobtails, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 118