---
title: The most important charm or implement of the medicine-men, the holie… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The most important charm or implement of the medicine-men, the holiest fetish of all, is typical of her. Who acts: important charm. 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 and the pragmat
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/11/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Mother Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/11/) / 12

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Mother Moon, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The most important charm or implement of the medicine-men, the holiest fetish of all, is typical of her.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** important charm · **What happens:** be

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (important charm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:11:12
# text = The most important charm or implement of the medicine-men, the holiest fetish of all, is typical of her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	holiest	holey	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	fetish	fetish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	typical	typical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the important charm or implement of the medicine men |  |  |  |  | of wife; typical *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/11/11/)
- next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/11/13/)
- ↑ back to [The Mother Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/11/)