The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 111

“Here!” said one of the Fawns, “I am sure this must be the place our mother told us about, where the Trues of our people live.

Who acts: I, this, mother, Trues · What happens: say, be, tell, live · To what, where: one, place, us · 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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, mother, Trues), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 said	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Fawns	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fawns	det
9	Fawns	Fawn	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 sure	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sure	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sure	cop
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 place	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 place	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 place	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sure	ccomp
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 place	acl:relcl
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	about	about	ADV	_	32 live	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 live	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 live	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Trues	det
28	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 live	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 people	nmod:poss
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Trues	nmod
32	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 told	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		one of the Fawns		here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	I				sure property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	must	this	the place				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	our mother	the place not said here	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
5	live in a quote	present	the Trues of our people				about property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 111