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title: But the _making_ of the arrow-heads is really a very simple matter;… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the _making_ of the arrow-heads is really a very simple matter; and I have fashioned many very fair ones. Who acts: _, making, I. 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, with its dependency tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 6

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But the \_making\_ of the arrow-heads is really a very simple matter; and I have fashioned many very fair ones.

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**Who acts:** \_, making, I · **What happens:** make, be, have · **To what, where:** \_, simple matter, fashioned many fair ones

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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 (\_, making, I), 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:pg77804:12:6
# text = But the _making_ of the arrow-heads is really a very simple matter; and I have fashioned many very fair ones.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | the \_ | \_ of the arrow heads |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset \_=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | making | a simple matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | fashioned many fair ones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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