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

But most of the time he had to be away from home, attending to the storms, and she became very lonesome, for there was no one to keep her company but Mast-Truan’s wrinkled old mother.

Who acts: most, Truan, one, Truan ’s · What happens: have, be, attend, become, keep, wrinkle · To what, where: home, company, old mother

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 (most, Truan, one, Truan ’s), 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

ccnsubjcasedetnmodnsubjmarkcopxcompcaseoblpunctadvclcasedetoblpunctccnsubjparataxisadvmodxcomppunctmarkexplconjdetnsubjmarkaclnmod:possobjcccompoundpunctcompoundnsubjconjamodobjpunctrootButCCONJmostADJofADPtheDETtimeNOUNhePRONhadVERBtoPARTbeAUXawayADVfromADPhomeNOUN,PUNCTattendingVERBtoADPtheDETstormsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONbecameVERBveryADVlonesomeADJ,PUNCTforSCONJtherePRONwasVERBnoDEToneNOUNtoPARTkeepVERBherPRONcompanyNOUNbutCCONJMastPROPN-PUNCTTruanPROPN’sNOUNwrinkledVERBoldADJmotherNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_7 hadcc
2mostmostADJDegree=Sup7 hadnsubj
3ofofADP_5 timecase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 timedet
5timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing2 mostnmod
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 hadnsubj
7hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoPART_10 awaymark
9bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf10 awaycop
10awayawayADV_7 hadxcomp
11fromfromADP_12 homecase
12homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing10 awayobl
13,,PUNCT_14 attendingpunct
14attendingattendVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 hadadvcl
15totoADP_17 stormscase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 stormsdet
17stormsstormNOUNNumber=Plur14 attendingobl
18,,PUNCT_21 becamepunct
19andandCCONJ_21 becamecc
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 becamensubj
21becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 hadparataxis
22veryveryADV_23 lonesomeadvmod
23lonesomelonesomeADJDegree=Pos21 becamexcomp
24,,PUNCT_27 waspunct
25forforSCONJ_27 wasmark
26theretherePRONPronType=Dem27 wasexpl
27wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 becameconj
28nonoDETPronType=Neg29 onedet
29oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing27 wasnsubj
30totoPART_31 keepmark
31keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf29 oneacl
32herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 companynmod:poss
33companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing31 keepobj
34butbutCCONJ_39 wrinkledcc
35MastMastPROPNNumber=Sing37 Truancompound
36--PUNCT_35 Mastpunct
37TruanTruanPROPNNumber=Sing38 ’scompound
38’s'NOUNNumber=Plur39 wrinklednsubj
39wrinkledwrinkleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 keepconj
40oldoldADJDegree=Pos41 motheramod
41mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing39 wrinkledobj
42..PUNCT_7 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastmost of the timestranger nsubjvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2isto-infinitivemost of the time not said herehomeaway propertytree rules
3attendgerundmost of the time not said hereto the stormsvn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to storm=Theme
4becomepastTruanlonesome propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5bepastno onetherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6keepto-infinitiveno one not said hereTruan's companyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
7wrinklepastTruan ’sold mothervn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mother=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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