The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 91

At that, all the animals were afraid of the Field-Mouse, and respected him more than ever--for it was plain that he indeed had the Power.

Who acts: animals, trick, man · What happens: be, respect, have · To what, where: that, man, Power

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 (animals, trick, man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 afraid	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animals	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 afraid	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 afraid	cop
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 Mouse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mouse	det
11	Field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Mouse	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Field	punct
13	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 afraid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 respected	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 respected	cc
16	respected	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 afraid	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 respected	obj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 respected	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 more	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 plain	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 plain	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 plain	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 plain	cop
25	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 respected	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 plain	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Power	det
31	Power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all animals		that		of the Field Mouse; afraid property	tree rules
2	respect	past		man		ever		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is	past	trick				plain property	tree rules
4	have	past	man	the Power			indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 91