The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 43

“Friends, Deer-babies, do not fear, but eat; your mother met relatives and went to their house, and she will not come to-night.”

Who acts: Friends, mother, tired · What happens: not fear, eat, meet, go, not come · To what, where: relatives, house

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 (Friends, mother, tired), 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	_	2 Friends	punct
2	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 babies	punct
4	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 babies	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Deer	punct
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Friends	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Friends	punct
8	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fear	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fear	advmod
10	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fear	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	parataxis
18	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 met	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 come	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 come	advmod
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fear	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 night	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 to	punct
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not fear in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Friends and Deer babies				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat in a quote	infinitive	Friends and Deer babies not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	meet in a quote	past	your mother	relatives			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Co-Agent
4	go in a quote	past	your mother not said here		friends's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
5	not come in a quote	future	tired			night	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 43