The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 3

And seeing them, you must have wondered how they were ever made from such fearfully stubborn stone--always the very hardest that was accessible to the maker.

Who acts: you, hardest · What happens: see, wonder, make, be · To what, where: heads, such stubborn stone

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, hardest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 wondered	cc
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wondered	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seeing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seeing	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 wondered	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wondered	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 wondered	aux
8	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 made	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wondered	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	18 stone	case
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stone	amod
16	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	17 stubborn	advmod
17	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stone	amod
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 hardest	punct
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 hardest	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hardest	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 hardest	advmod
23	hardest	hardest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stone	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 accessible	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 accessible	cop
26	accessible	accessible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hardest	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 maker	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maker	det
29	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accessible	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	you not said here	heads = head				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	wonder speech: ask	must · perfect	you					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past · passive		heads = head	such stubborn stone and the hardest	ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from stone=Material
4	is	past	the hardest				to the maker; accessible property	tree rules

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 3