The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 22

For dippers, to take water from the big earthen _tinajas_, the Tée-wahn used then, as they use to-day, queer little ladle-shaped _omates_ made of a gourd; but Nah-chu-rú-chu, being a great medicine-man and very rich, had a dipper of pure pearl, shaped like the gourds, but wonderfully precious.

Who acts: matters, chu rú · What happens: take, use, shape, make, be, have · To what, where: water, big earthen tinajas, Tée, queer little shaped omates, great medicine man, dipper

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matters, chu rú), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 dippers	case
2	dippers	dipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 used	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dippers	appos
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	12 tinajas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tinajas	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tinajas	amod
10	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tinajas	amod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 earthen	punct
12	tinajas	tinaja	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dippers	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 used	det
16	Tée	Tée	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 used	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Tée	punct
18	wahn	wahn	X	Foreign=Yes	19 used	nsubj:pass
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 used	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 use	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
24	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 used	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 use	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 omates	punct
29	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 omates	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 omates	amod
31	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shaped	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ladle	punct
33	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 omates	amod
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 omates	punct
35	omates	omate	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	obl
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 omates	acl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 gourd	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 gourd	det
40	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 had	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 rú	cc
43	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	47 rú	discourse
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 Nah	punct
45	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 rú	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 chu	punct
47	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 had	nsubj
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 chu	punct
49	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	47 rú	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 man	punct
51	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 man	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 man	det
53	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 man	amod
54	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 man	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 medicine	punct
56	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chu	appos
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 rich	cc
58	very	very	ADV	_	59 rich	advmod
59	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 man	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 rú	punct
61	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 used	parataxis
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 dipper	det
63	dipper	dipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 had	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 pearl	case
65	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 pearl	amod
66	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 dipper	nmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 shaped	punct
68	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 pearl	acl
69	like	like	ADP	_	71 gourds	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 gourds	det
71	gourds	gourd	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 shaped	obl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 precious	punct
73	but	but	CCONJ	_	75 precious	cc
74	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	75 precious	advmod
75	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 had	conj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		water	the big earthen tinajas			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from tinaja=Initial_Location
2	use	participle · passive		Tée		then	for dippers	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for dipper=Eventuality
3	use	present	matters = matter	queer little shaped omates		day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shape	participle					ladle compound	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	make	participle		queer little shaped omates not said here			of a gourd	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	is a	gerund		a great medicine man				tree rules
7	be							tree rules
8	have	past	chu rú	a dipper of pure pearl				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dipper=Patient
9	shape	participle		pure pearl not said here			like the gourds	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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.

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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 22