The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 19

Once upon a time, when the Wolf and the Deer were friends, there were two neighbors in the country beyond the Rio Puerco, not far from where the pueblo of Laguna (a Quères town) now is.

Who acts: Wolf, two neighbors · What happens: be · To what, where: friends, country

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 (Wolf, two neighbors), 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	16 were	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friends	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 friends	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wolf	det
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friends	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Deer	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Deer	det
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wolf	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 friends	cop
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 time	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 neighbors	nummod
18	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 were	obl
22	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	25 Puerco	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Puerco	det
24	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Puerco	compound
25	Puerco	Puerco	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 country	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 far	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 Puerco	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 where	case
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 far	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pueblo	det
32	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 is	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Laguna	case
34	Laguna	Laguna	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 pueblo	nmod
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 town	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 town	det
37	Quères	Quères	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 town	compound
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Laguna	appos
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 town	punct
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 is	advmod
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 where	cop
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Wolf and the Deer	friends			tree rules
2	be	past	two neighbors		the country beyond the Rio Puerco; there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
3	is	present				where 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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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 19