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title: [42] Which were formerly about the same thing--a large and sharp-edg… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [42] Which were formerly about the same thing--a large and sharp-edged arrow-head or similar stone being the only knife of the Pueblos in prehistoric times. Who acts: 42, edged arrow head. 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 36

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\[42\] Which were formerly about the same thing--a large and sharp-edged arrow-head or similar stone being the only knife of the Pueblos in prehistoric times.

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**Who acts:** 42, edged arrow head · **What happens:** be, edge · **To what, where:** same thing, large only knife

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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 (42, edged arrow head), 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:pg77804:12:36
# text = [42] Which were formerly about the same thing--a large and sharp-edged arrow-head or similar stone being the only knife of the Pueblos in prehistoric times.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | 42 | the same thing |  |  |  | Which *nsubj*; about, formerly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | edged arrow head or similar stone | a large only knife |  |  | time | of the Pueblos | 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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