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title: But as soon as their hearts thought of love, a skeleton was between… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as soon as their hearts thought of love, a skeleton was between them in place of the girl--for they who go to war or take a scalp have no right to think of love. Who acts: skeleton, boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 75

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But as soon as their hearts thought of love, a skeleton was between them in place of the girl--for they who go to war or take a scalp have no right to think of love.

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**Who acts:** skeleton, boys · **What happens:** think, be, go, take, have · **To what, where:** place, war, scalp, right

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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 (skeleton, boys), 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:pg77804:12:75
# text = But as soon as their hearts thought of love, a skeleton was between them in place of the girl--for they who go to war or take a scalp have no right to think of love.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | as boys's hearts; of love; soon *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | a skeleton |  |  | place of the girl |  | between boys *= boy* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | boys *= boy* |  |  | war |  | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | a scalp |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scalp=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | boys *= boy* *not said here* | no right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | no right *not said here* |  |  |  | of love | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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