The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 6

For Indians are men, after all, and astonishingly like the rest of us when one really comes to know them.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, come, know · To what, where: men

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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 Indians	case
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 men	obl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 men	cop
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 men	punct
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 men	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rest	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rest	cc
10	astonishingly	astonishingly	ADV	_	13 rest	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 rest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 men	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 rest	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 comes	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 comes	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 comes	advmod
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rest	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 comes	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		men and the rest of us	after all	for Indians; the rest of us conj	tree rules
2	come	present	one				tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive	one not said here	men = man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 6