The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 31

So there was a Moon again--and that it _was_ the Moon, we may be very sure; since this same girl became the mother of the Hero Twins, who were assuredly Children of the Moon.

Who acts: Moon, same girl, mother · What happens: be, become · To what, where: mother, Children

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, A Pueblo Bluebeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, same girl, mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sure	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 it	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sure	nsubj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 _	cop
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Moon	det
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 it	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sure	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 sure	advmod
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
23	since	since	SCONJ	_	27 became	mark
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 girl	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 girl	amod
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mother	det
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Twins	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Twins	det
32	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Twins	compound
33	Twins	Twin	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 mother	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Children	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 Children	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 Children	cop
37	assuredly	assuredly	ADV	_	38 Children	advmod
38	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mother	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 Moon	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Moon	det
41	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Children	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may · past	Moon		we nsubj; sure property	tree rules
2	become	past	this same girl	the mother of the Hero Twins and Children		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	the mother of the Hero Twins and Children	Children	of the Moon; assuredly 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, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, A Pueblo Bluebeard, sentence 31