The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 1

YOU have perhaps seen the beautiful arrow-heads of moss-agate, petrified wood, or volcanic glass which were used, until very recently, by the Indians of the Southwest, and are still treasured by them.

Who acts: YOU, Indians · What happens: see, petrify, use, treasure · To what, where: beautiful arrow heads, volcanic glass

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 (YOU, Indians), 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	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heads	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heads	amod
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 arrow	punct
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 agate	case
11	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agate	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 moss	punct
13	agate	agate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wood	punct
15	petrified	petrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wood	amod
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glass	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 glass	cc
19	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glass	amod
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 used	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 used	aux:pass
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 glass	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 recently	punct
25	until	until	ADP	_	27 recently	case
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 recently	advmod
27	recently	recently	ADV	_	23 used	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Indians	punct
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 Indians	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Indians	det
31	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 used	obl:agent
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Southwest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Southwest	det
34	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Indians	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 treasured	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 treasured	cc
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 treasured	aux:pass
38	still	still	ADV	_	39 treasured	advmod
39	treasured	treasure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seen	conj
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 treasured	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	YOU	the beautiful arrow heads of moss agate and petrified wood or volcanic glass		perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
2	petrify	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	use	past · passive	the Indians of the Southwest	volcanic glass		recently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	treasure	present · passive	Indians = indian		still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 1