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description: She had neither father nor mother, sister nor brother; and in her fair form were the seeds of all humanity--of all life and love and goodness. Who acts: P’áh. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mother Moon, with its depe
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 4

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She had neither father nor mother, sister nor brother; and in her fair form were the seeds of all humanity--of all life and love and goodness.

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**Who acts:** P’áh · **What happens:** have, be, form · **To what, where:** father, seeds, fair form

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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 (P’áh), 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:pg77804:11:4
# text = She had neither father nor mother, sister nor brother; and in her fair form were the seeds of all humanity--of all life and love and goodness.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc:preconj	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | P’áh *= p'áh* | father nor mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the seeds and all life and love and goodness |  | P’áh's fair form |  | of all humanity; all life and love and goodness *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  | P’áh *= p'áh* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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