The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 92

There was one old She-Bear in particular, so huge and fierce that all men feared her; and not even the boldest hunter dared go to the south--for there she had her home with her two sons.

Who acts: one old She Bear, men, boldest hunter, South · What happens: be, fear, not dare, not go, have · To what, where: South, home

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 (one old She Bear, men, boldest hunter, South), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Bear	nummod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bear	amod
5	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Bear	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 She	punct
7	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 particular	case
9	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bear	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huge	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 huge	advmod
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bear	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fierce	cc
14	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 huge	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 feared	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feared	nsubj
18	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fierce	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 feared	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 dared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dared	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dared	advmod
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 hunter	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hunter	det
25	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 hunter	amod
26	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dared	nsubj
27	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 dared	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 south	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 south	det
31	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 there	case
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 had	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dared	conj
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 home	nmod:poss
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 sons	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sons	nmod:poss
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 sons	nummod
42	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one old She Bear in particular		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	past	all men	South			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	not dare	past	the boldest hunter				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not go	infinitive	the boldest hunter not said here		the south		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to south=Initial_Location
5	have	past	South	South's home		with South's two sons	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hero Twins, sentence 92