The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 8

Ees-tée-ah Muts, who was a very good man, had no suspicion that his wife was guilty of such practices, and she was very careful to keep him in ignorance of it.

Who acts: Muts, Ees, wife · What happens: be, have, keep, ignore · To what, where: good man, suspicion, man, ignorance, tée

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 (Muts, Ees, wife), 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	Ees	ee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tée	punct
3	tée	tée	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ees	conj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
5	ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 tée	appos
6	Muts	mut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ah	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 man	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Muts	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ees	punct
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 suspicion	det
17	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 guilty	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guilty	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 guilty	cop
22	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 practices	case
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 practices	amod
25	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 guilty	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 careful	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 careful	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 careful	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 careful	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 careful	advmod
31	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 careful	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 keep	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 ignorance	case
36	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 keep	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ignorance	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Muts	a good man			tree rules
2	have	past	Ees and tée	no suspicion			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient
3	is	past	man's wife			of such practices; guilty property	tree rules
4	is	past	wife			careful property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	wife not said here	man	ignorance of tée		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in ignorance=Location
6	ignore			tée			nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 8