The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 39

She had a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre-giantess who lived in the dark gorges of the mountains to the South, and so much did Máw-Sahv and Oó-yah-wee hear of this wonderful personage--who was the terror of all that country--that their boyish ambition was fired.

Who acts: Mother, certain ogre giantess, wonderful personage, Máw · What happens: have, live, do, be, fire, ambition · To what, where: great many anecdotes, dark gorges, Máw, terror, boyish ambition

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 (Mother, certain ogre giantess, wonderful personage, Máw), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 anecdotes	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anecdotes	amod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anecdotes	amod
6	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 giantess	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 giantess	det
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giantess	amod
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giantess	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ogre	punct
12	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anecdotes	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 giantess	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 gorges	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gorges	det
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gorges	amod
18	gorges	gorge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountains	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountains	det
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gorges	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 South	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 South	det
24	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 mountains	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 did	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 did	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 did	advmod
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
30	Máw	Máw	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 did	obj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Sahv	punct
32	Sahv	Sahv	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Máw	flat
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hear	cc
34	Oó	Oó	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 hear	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Oó	punct
36	yah	yah	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wee	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 yah	punct
38	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hear	amod
39	hear	hear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Máw	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 personage	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 personage	det
42	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 personage	amod
43	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hear	nmod
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 terror	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 terror	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 terror	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 terror	det
48	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 personage	appos
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 country	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 country	det
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 country	det
52	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 terror	nmod
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	59 fired	punct
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 fired	mark
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 ambition	nmod:poss
56	boyish	boyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 ambition	amod
57	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fired	nsubj:pass
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 fired	aux:pass
59	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 did	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mother	a great many anecdotes of a certain ogre giantess			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anecdote=Patient
2	live	past	a certain ogre giantess		the dark gorges of the mountains to the South		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gorge=Location
3	do	past		Máw and Oó wee hear of this wonderful personage			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent máw=Eventuality
4	is a	past	this wonderful personage	the terror		of all country	tree rules
5	fire	past · passive		Máw's boyish ambition			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	ambition		Máw				nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 39