The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 13

The Mother-Antelope, remembering her own baby, with tears said “Yes,” and at once adopted the tiny stranger, while the Coyote thanked her and went home.

Who acts: Coyote · What happens: remember, say, adopt, thank, go · To what, where: own baby, tears, tiny stranger, baby, Mother · 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 Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mother	det
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Antelope	punct
4	Antelope	Antelope	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mother	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 remembering	punct
6	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Mother	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 baby	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 baby	amod
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remembering	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tears	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 tears	case
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 remembering	obj
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tears	acl
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 adopted	punct
15	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	21 adopted	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Yes	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Yes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 adopted	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 adopted	obl
21	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stranger	det
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stranger	amod
24	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adopted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thanked	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 thanked	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Coyote	det
28	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 thanked	nsubj
29	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 adopted	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thanked	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thanked	conj
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remember	gerund		child's own baby		tears obj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	participle		tears not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	adopt	past		the tiny stranger			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme
4	thank speech: thank	past	the Coyote		baby		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	go	past	the Coyote not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Antelope Boy, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 13