The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 14

Now the Grandmother would never let Sun-Arrow go to war, fearing that he would be killed; and all the other young men laughed at him, because he had never taken the sacred _oak-bark_.

Who acts: Grandmother, Sun, other young men, man · What happens: not let, go, fear, kill, laugh, not take · To what, where: war, Old, sacred · 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 (Grandmother, Sun, other young men, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 let	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grandmother	det
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Arrow	punct
9	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sun	conj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 war	case
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fearing	punct
14	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 go	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 killed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 killed	nsubj:pass
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 killed	aux:pass
19	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fearing	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 laughed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 all	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 men	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 men	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 laughed	nsubj
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	parataxis
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laughed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 taken	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 taken	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taken	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 taken	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 taken	advmod
35	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 laughed	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sacred	det
37	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 taken	obl
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 _	punct
39	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 _	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 oak	punct
41	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 _	compound
42	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 taken	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	the Grandmother			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	Sun and Arrow		war			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
3	fear	gerund	Sun and Arrow not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kill	would · passive		Old				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	laugh	past	all other young men				at Old	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not take	past · perfect	man	the sacred			oak bark _ obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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 Brave Bobtails, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 14