The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 105

And him they call not T’hoo-chée-deh, the Field-Mouse, but _Pee-íd-deh p’ah-hláh-queer_, the Deer-by-the-River, that he may not seem of little honor.

Who acts: liberty, Pee íd · What happens: not call, queer, not seem · To what, where: T’hoo chée deh · 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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (liberty, Pee íd), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 call	cc
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 call	advmod
6	T’hoo	T'hoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 deh	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 T’hoo	punct
8	chée	chée	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deh	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 chée	punct
10	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mouse	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mouse	det
13	Field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Mouse	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Field	punct
15	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deh	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 queer	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 queer	cc
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 queer	punct
19	Pee	pee	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 íd	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Pee	punct
21	íd	íd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 queer	nsubj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 deh	punct
23	deh	deh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 íd	conj
24	p’ah	p'ah	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 queer	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 p’ah	punct
26	hláh	hláh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 queer	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 queer	punct
28	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 queer	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 River	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 River	det
32	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 River	nsubj
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 River	punct
34	by	by	ADP	_	38 River	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 by	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 River	det
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 the	punct
38	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 queer	appos
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 seem	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 seem	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 seem	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 seem	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 seem	advmod
44	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 call	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 honor	case
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 honor	amod
47	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 seem	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not call	present	liberty	T’hoo chée deh	Believer nsubj	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	queer		Pee íd and deh		p’ah nsubj; the River Deer appos	tree rules
3	not seem	may	liberty		of little honor	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 105