The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 1

THAT the heroes of “The Magic Hide-and-Seek” were really the Pueblo Castor and Pollux, the twin offspring of the Sun-Father and the Moon-Mother, is more than probable.

Who acts: heroes, Pueblo Castor · What happens: be · To what, where: Pueblo Castor

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hero Twins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes, Pueblo Castor), 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	THAT	that	SCONJ	_	18 Castor	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heroes	det
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Castor	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Hide	case
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Hide	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Hide	det
7	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Hide	compound
8	Hide	Hide	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heroes	nmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Hide	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Seek	cc
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Seek	punct
12	Seek	Seek	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Hide	conj
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Hide	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Castor	cop
15	really	really	ADV	_	18 Castor	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Castor	det
17	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Castor	compound
18	Castor	Castor	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 more	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Pollux	cc
20	Pollux	Pollux	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Castor	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 offspring	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 offspring	det
23	twin	twin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 offspring	amod
24	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Castor	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 Father	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Father	det
27	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Father	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Sun	punct
29	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 offspring	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Mother	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Mother	det
32	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Mother	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Moon	punct
34	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Father	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Castor	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 more	cop
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 probable	case
39	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 more	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the heroes of the Magic Hide and Seek	the Pueblo Castor and Pollux				Pollux conj; the twin offspring of the Sun Father and the Moon Mother appos	tree rules
2	is	present	the Pueblo Castor and Pollux					than probable; more 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, The Hero Twins, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 1