The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 20

For many years all the warriors of Isleta had tried to kill him, for he was the head of the war; but he slew all who came against him.

Who acts: Isleta · What happens: try, kill, be, slay, come · To what, where: warriors, Isleta, all

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 (Isleta), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tried	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 warriors	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 warriors	det
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tried	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Isleta	case
8	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 warriors	nmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tried	aux
10	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 kill	mark
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 head	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 head	case
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 head	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 head	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 war	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 war	det
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 slew	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 slew	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slew	nsubj
26	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tried	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 slew	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 all	acl:relcl
30	against	against	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect · passive		all warriors of Isleta	year		tree rules
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive		Isleta			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	Isleta			for the head; of the war	tree rules
4	slay	past	Isleta	all			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
5	come	past				against Isleta; who nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location

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 20

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 20