The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 115

They went down the ladder into a great room underground; and there they found all the Trues of the Deer-people, who welcomed them and gave them food.

Who acts: door, Trues · What happens: go down, find, welcome, give · To what, where: ladder, great room, Trues, food

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 (door, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 ladder	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladder	det
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
10	underground	underground	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 there	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 found	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 Trues	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Trues	det
18	Trues	true	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
21	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 people	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Deer	punct
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Trues	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 welcomed	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 welcomed	nsubj
26	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Trues	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 welcomed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 welcomed	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	door	the ladder		a great room	underground property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ladder=Extent
2	find	past	door	all Trues of the Deer people		there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent true=Topic
3	welcome	past	all Trues of the Deer people	Trues = true				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	give	past	all Trues of the Deer people not said here	food	Trues = true			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 115