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title: The maker of _puntas_ takes the bone in his left hand; in his right… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The maker of _puntas_ takes the bone in his left hand; in his right is the stick, against which the selected splinter of stone is firmly pressed by the thumb. Who acts: maker, thumb. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ma
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 8

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The maker of \_puntas\_ takes the bone in his left hand; in his right is the stick, against which the selected splinter of stone is firmly pressed by the thumb.

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**Who acts:** maker, thumb · **What happens:** take, be, select, press · **To what, where:** bone, left hand, stick, right, selected splinter

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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 (maker, thumb), 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:pg77804:12:8
# text = The maker of _puntas_ takes the bone in his left hand; in his right is the stick, against which the selected splinter of stone is firmly pressed by the thumb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	puntas	punta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	splinter	splinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the maker of puntas | the bone |  | maker's left hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bone=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the stick |  | maker's right |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **select** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **press** | present · passive | the thumb | the selected splinter of stone |  |  |  | against the stick; firmly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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