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title: But she who first had the love of children, and paid for them with p… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But she who first had the love of children, and paid for them with pain as mother’s pay, she did not grow ugly by her sacrifice. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon, with its dependency tree 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 31

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But she who first had the love of children, and paid for them with pain as mother’s pay, she did not grow ugly by her sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** have, pay, not grow, love, sacrifice · **To what, where:** love, children

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:11:31
# text = But she who first had the love of children, and paid for them with pain as mother’s pay, she did not grow ugly by her sacrifice.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
26	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | mother | the love of children |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; first *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 2 | **pay** | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for children *= child*; with pain; as mother's pay | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **grow** | past · do-support | mother |  |  |  |  | by mother's sacrifice; ugly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sacrifice=Location |
| 4 | **love** |  |  | children |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **pay** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **sacrifice** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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