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title: Then the principals had a meeting and made a rule which is to this d… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the principals had a meeting and made a rule which is to this day, that in the twelve days of the scalp[47] no warrior shall think thoughts of love. Who acts: principals, rule, warrior. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 101

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Then the principals had a meeting and made a rule which is to this day, that in the twelve days of the scalp\[47\] no warrior shall think thoughts of love.

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**Who acts:** principals, rule, warrior · **What happens:** have, make, be, think · **To what, where:** meeting, rule, thoughts, love

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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 (principals, rule, warrior), 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:pg77804:12:101
# text = Then the principals had a meeting and made a rule which is to this day, that in the twelve days of the scalp[47] no warrior shall think thoughts of love.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	principals	principal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the principals | a meeting |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | the principals *not said here* | a rule |  |  | day | that *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | a rule |  |  |  | to this day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | shall | no warrior | thoughts of love |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thought=Theme |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | love |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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