The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 8

Once in the Days of the Old, it was that a young man lived here in Shee-eh-whíb-bak whom they called T’hoor-hlóh-ah, the Arrow of the Sun. He was not of the Tée-wahn, but a Ute, who was taken in war while yet a child.

Who acts: Days, words, Shee · What happens: be, call, not be, take · To what, where: eh whíb bak, Ute, war · 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 (Days, words, Shee), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 Days	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Days	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Days	det
4	Days	Day	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 lived	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Old	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Old	det
7	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Days	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Days	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Days	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lived	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lived	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lived	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	24 bak	case
18	Shee	Shee	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bak	nsubj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Shee	punct
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bak	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
22	whíb	whíb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bak	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 bak	punct
24	bak	bak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 called	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	nsubj
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bak	acl:relcl
28	T’hoor	t'hoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hlóh	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 T’hoor	punct
30	hlóh	hlóh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 ah	punct
32	ah	ah	INTJ	_	30 hlóh	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Arrow	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Arrow	det
35	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ah	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Sun.	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sun.	det
38	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Arrow	nmod
39	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wahn	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 wahn	cop
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 wahn	advmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	46 wahn	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 wahn	det
44	Tée	Tée	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 wahn	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 Tée	punct
46	wahn	wahn	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Arrow	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 taken	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 taken	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 Ute	det
50	Ute	Ute	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 taken	nsubj:pass
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 taken	punct
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 taken	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 taken	aux:pass
54	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lived	parataxis
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 war	case
56	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 taken	obl
57	while	while	SCONJ	_	60 child	mark
58	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	60 child	cc
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 child	det
60	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 taken	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Days of the Old tail			eh whíb bak Shee; here	a young man nsubj; live property	tree rules
2	call	past	words = word		eh whíb bak Shee		T’hoor hlóh xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
3	not is	past	Shee				of the Tée wahn	tree rules
4	take	past · passive		a Ute		war	who nsubj; a child advcl	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in war=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 8