The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 101

Then the principals had a meeting and made a rule which is to this day, that in the twelve days of the scalp[47] no warrior shall think thoughts of love.

Who acts: principals, rule, warrior · What happens: have, make, be, think · To what, where: meeting, rule, thoughts, love

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 (principals, rule, warrior), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 principals	det
3	principals	principal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rule	det
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 day	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 day	cop
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rule	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 made	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 days	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 days	det
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 scalp	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 scalp	det
24	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 days	nmod
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	26 47	punct
26	47	47	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 scalp	nmod
27	]	]	PUNCT	_	26 47	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 warrior	det
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 think	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 think	aux
31	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 47	acl:relcl
32	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 think	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 love	case
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thoughts	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the principals	a meeting	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Patient
2	make	past	the principals not said here	a rule	day	that obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product
3	is	present	a rule		to this day		tree rules
4	think speech: other	shall	no warrior	thoughts of love			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thought=Theme
5	think			love			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 101

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 101