The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 34

There seemed to be some spell about these Ogres--besides their frequent hungry spells--for the Pueblos, who were so brave in the face of other foes, never dared fight these terrible cave-dwellers.

Who acts: some, Pueblos, men · What happens: seem, be, not dare, not fight, spell · To what, where: face, terrible cave dwellers

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, Pueblos, men), 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 seemed	expl
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 spell	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spell	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 spell	nsubj
6	spell	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	advcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 Ogres	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 Ogres	det
9	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spell	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 spells	punct
11	besides	besides	ADP	_	15 spells	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 spells	nmod:poss
13	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spells	amod
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spells	amod
15	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spell	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 Pueblos	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 Pueblos	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Pueblos	det
19	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spells	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brave	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 brave	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brave	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 brave	advmod
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Pueblos	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 face	det
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brave	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 foes	case
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 foes	amod
30	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 face	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dared	punct
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 dared	advmod
33	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
34	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 dared	xcomp
35	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 dwellers	det
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dwellers	amod
37	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dwellers	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 cave	punct
39	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fight	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past			there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	some			about this Ogres; besides men's frequent hungry spells for the Pueblos; spell property	tree rules
3	is	past	the Pueblos		the face of other foes	brave property	tree rules
4	not dare	past					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not fight	infinitive		this terrible cave dwellers			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dweller=Co-Agent
6	spell		men = man			for the Pueblos	nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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 Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 34

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 34