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title: I have tried for six hours, with the finest drills, to make a little… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have tried for six hours, with the finest drills, to make a little hole in the thinnest part of an agate arrow-head, to put it on a charm-ring; but when the drill and I were completely worn out, there was not so much as a mark on the arrow-head to show what we had been doing. Who acts: I, we. A se
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 4

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I have tried for six hours, with the finest drills, to make a little hole in the thinnest part of an agate arrow-head, to put it on a charm-ring; but when the drill and I were completely worn out, there was not so much as a mark on the arrow-head to show what we had been doing.

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** try, make, put, wear out, not be, show · **To what, where:** little hole, thinnest part, hole, charm ring, drill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, we), 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:pg77804:12:4
# text = I have tried for six hours, with the finest drills, to make a little hole in the thinnest part of an agate arrow-head, to put it on a charm-ring; but when the drill and I were completely worn out, there was not so much as a mark on the arrow-head to show what we had been doing.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	drills	drill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	thinnest	thin	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
39	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	46	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	conj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	advcl	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
49	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	50	expl	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
63	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	_
64	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	68	obj	_	_
65	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
67	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	68	aux	_	_
68	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | hour | with the finest drills | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a little hole |  | the thinnest part of a agate arrow head |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | hole |  | a charm ring |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ring=Destination |
| 4 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | the drill  I |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a mark on the arrow head; much *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **do** | past · perfect · progressive | we |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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