The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 38

They were very fond of stories of adventure, like less precocious lads; and after the death of their mother they kept their grandmother busy telling them strange tales.

Who acts: Twins, grandmother, mother · What happens: be, keep, tell, die · To what, where: grandmother, strange tales, Twins · 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 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 (Twins, grandmother, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fond	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fond	advmod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stories	case
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fond	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 adventure	case
8	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stories	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lads	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 lads	case
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 precocious	advmod
12	precocious	precocious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lads	amod
13	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 adventure	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 death	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 death	det
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mother	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 death	nmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kept	nsubj
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grandmother	nmod:poss
25	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	obj
26	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kept	xcomp
27	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 kept	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 telling	iobj
29	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tales	amod
30	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 telling	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Twins = twin				of stories of adventure and precocious lads; fond property	tree rules
2	keep	past	Twins = twin	Twins's grandmother		after the death of Twins's mother	busy property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Twins's grandmother not said here	strange tales	Twins = twin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic
4	die		Twins's mother					nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 38

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 38