The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 27

For here is Sun-Arrow, who was laughed at--and now he has brought the bark of Red Scalp, whom our bravest have tried in vain to kill.”

Who acts: Sun, ah, bravest · What happens: be, laugh, bring, try, kill · To what, where: Arrow, bark

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 (Sun, ah, bravest), 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	_	2 here	case
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 here	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Arrow	punct
6	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 here	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 laughed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	aux:pass
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Arrow	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 laughed	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brought	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 brought	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brought	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 brought	aux
17	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 laughed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bark	det
19	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Scalp	case
21	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Scalp	amod
22	Scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bark	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tried	punct
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tried	obl
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bravest	nmod:poss
26	bravest	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tried	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tried	aux
28	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 bark	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 vain	case
30	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tried	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 kill	mark
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 vain	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sun			Arrow conj; here property	tree rules
2	laugh	past · passive		Arrow			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	bring	present · perfect	ah	the bark of Red Scalp	now		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bark=Theme
4	try	present · perfect	our bravest	the bark of Red Scalp		vain property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	kill	to-infinitive	our bravest not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 27