The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 48

[22] There was no town of the Lagunas there then, and only a shepherd’s hut and corral, in which were an old Quères Indian and his grandson, tending their goats.

Who acts: old Quères · What happens: be, tend · To what, where: hut, goats

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Quères), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 22	punct
2	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 was	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 22	punct
4	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hut	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Lagunas	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Lagunas	det
10	Lagunas	Laguna	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 town	appos
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 Lagunas	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 was	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hut	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hut	cc
15	only	only	ADV	_	19 hut	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shepherd	det
17	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hut	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 shepherd	case
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 corral	cc
21	corral	corral	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hut	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Indian	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 Indian	obl
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 Indian	cop
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Quères	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Quères	amod
28	Quères	Quères	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Indian	nsubj
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hut	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grandson	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 grandson	nmod:poss
32	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Indian	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tending	punct
34	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 Indian	advcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 goats	nmod:poss
36	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 tending	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 hut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a shepherd's hut and corral		a shepherd nmod:poss; corral conj	tree rules
2	is	past	a old Quères		a shepherd's hut and corral	COYOTE's grandson conj; indian property	tree rules
3	tend	gerund	a old Quères not said here	hut's goats			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 48