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title: And seeing them, you must have wondered how they were ever made from… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And seeing them, you must have wondered how they were ever made from such fearfully stubborn stone--always the very hardest that was accessible to the maker. Who acts: you, hardest. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Mak
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 3

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And seeing them, you must have wondered how they were ever made from such fearfully stubborn stone--always the very hardest that was accessible to the maker.

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**Who acts:** you, hardest · **What happens:** see, wonder, make, be · **To what, where:** heads, such stubborn stone

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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, hardest), 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:pg77804:12:3
# text = And seeing them, you must have wondered how they were ever made from such fearfully stubborn stone--always the very hardest that was accessible to the maker.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hardest	hardest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	accessible	accessible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | you *not said here* | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | must · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | heads *= head* |  | such stubborn stone and the hardest | ever |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from stone=Material |
| 4 | **is** | past | the hardest |  |  |  |  | to the maker; accessible *property* | tree rules |

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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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