The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 31

The common belief of the Pueblos is that the Horned Toad makes these arrow-heads only during a storm, and deposits them at the very instant when it thunders.

Who acts: common belief, belief · What happens: be, deposit, thunder, believe · To what, where: heads, instant, Pueblos

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 (common belief, belief), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 belief	det
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 belief	amod
3	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Pueblos	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pueblos	det
6	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belief	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 makes	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 makes	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Toad	det
10	Horned	Horned	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Toad	compound
11	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 heads	det
14	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heads	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 arrow	punct
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 makes	obj
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 storm	advmod
18	during	during	ADP	_	20 storm	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 storm	det
20	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deposits	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 deposits	cc
23	deposits	deposit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 makes	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 deposits	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 instant	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 instant	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 instant	advmod
28	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deposits	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 thunders	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thunders	nsubj
31	thunders	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 instant	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the common belief of the Pueblos			the Horned Toad nsubj; this arrow heads obj; a storm advcl; make property	tree rules
2	deposit	present	the common belief of the Pueblos not said here	heads = head	the instant		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at instant=Destination
3	thunder	present	belief				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	believe			the Pueblos			nom belief «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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 31