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title: YOU have perhaps seen the beautiful arrow-heads of moss-agate, petri… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 1

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YOU have perhaps seen the beautiful arrow-heads of moss-agate, petrified wood, or volcanic glass which were used, until very recently, by the Indians of the Southwest, and are still treasured by them.

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**Who acts:** YOU, Indians · **What happens:** see, petrify, use, treasure · **To what, where:** beautiful arrow heads, volcanic glass

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOU, Indians), 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:pg77804:12:1
# text = YOU have perhaps seen the beautiful arrow-heads of moss-agate, petrified wood, or volcanic glass which were used, until very recently, by the Indians of the Southwest, and are still treasured by them.
1	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	petrified	petrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl:agent	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	treasured	treasure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | YOU | the beautiful arrow heads of moss agate and petrified wood or volcanic glass |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 2 | **petrify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive | the Indians of the Southwest | volcanic glass |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **treasure** | present · passive | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | still |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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