The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 36

You must know that the antelopes never comb their hair, and while among them the boy’s head had grown very bushy.

Who acts: You, antelopes, head · What happens: know, not comb, grow · To what, where: hair · 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 (You, antelopes, head), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 comb	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 antelopes	det
6	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comb	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 comb	advmod
8	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comb	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grown	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grown	cc
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 grown	mark
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 while	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 boy	case
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grown	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grown	aux
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 know	parataxis
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 bushy	advmod
23	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grown	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	must	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not comb	present	the antelopes	antelopes's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	grow	past · perfect	the boy's head		bushy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Antelope Boy, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 36