The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 12

When she was gone Ees-tée-ah Muts began to ponder what she had said, and he feared that all was not well.

Who acts: wife, Muts, husband, all · What happens: be, begin, ponder, say, fear, not be · To what, where: Ees tée · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Muts, husband, all), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feared	advcl
5	Ees	Ees	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tée	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Ees	punct
7	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	conj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 began	discourse
10	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tée	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ponder	mark
13	ponder	ponder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 said	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	aux
17	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 ponder	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 feared	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 feared	nsubj
21	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 well	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 well	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 well	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 well	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 feared	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	wife		Ees tée conj; gone property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Muts	Ees tée not said here		tree rules
3	ponder	to-infinitive	Muts not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	wife		what obj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	fear	past	husband			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	not is	past	all		well 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 12