The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 20

One was a Deer-mother who had two fawns, and the other a Wolf-mother with two cubs.

Who acts: One, Deer mother, other · What happens: be, have, mother · To what, where: Deer mother, two fawns

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 (One, Deer mother, other), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
4	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Deer	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	acl:relcl
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fawns	nummod
10	fawns	fawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	nsubj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 mother	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Wolf	punct
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 cubs	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cubs	nummod
21	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mother	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	One	a Deer mother and a Wolf mother		tree rules
2	have	past	a Deer mother and a Wolf mother	two fawns		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=Patient
3	mother		the other		with two cubs	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 Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 20