The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 31

When the Grandmother had spoken to the Cacique, and it was well, they brought the young people together, and gave them to eat of the betrothal corn--to Sun Arrow an ear of the blue corn, and to her an ear of the white corn, because the hearts of maidens are whiter than those of men.

Who acts: Cacique, daughters, hearts · What happens: speak, be, bring, give, eat · To what, where: Grandmother, young people, ear, daughters, Sun Arrow · 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 (Cacique, daughters, hearts), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 spoken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grandmother	det
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 brought	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Cacique	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cacique	det
8	Cacique	Cacique	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 well	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 well	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 well	cop
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 spoken	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	16 brought	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 gave	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 corn	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 corn	det
29	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 corn	compound
30	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 Arrow	punct
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Arrow	case
33	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Arrow	compound
34	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obl
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 ear	det
36	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Arrow	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 corn	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 corn	det
39	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 corn	amod
40	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ear	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 ear	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ear	cc
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 ear	nmod:poss
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 ear	det
46	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 corn	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 corn	det
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 corn	amod
50	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ear	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 whiter	punct
52	because	because	SCONJ	_	58 whiter	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 hearts	det
54	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 whiter	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 maidens	case
56	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 hearts	nmod
57	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 whiter	cop
58	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 gave	conj
59	than	than	ADP	_	60 those	case
60	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	58 whiter	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 men	case
62	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 those	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Grandmother		to the Cacique	tree rules
2	is	past	Cacique			well property	tree rules
3	bring	past	daughters = daughter		the young people	together property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination
4	give	past	daughters = daughter not said here	Grandmother's ear of the white corn	daughters = daughter		tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here		Sun Arrow	of the betrothal corn	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of corn=Source
6	is	present	the hearts of maidens			than those of men; white property	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 Brave Bobtails, sentence 31