The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 35

He not only is the inventor and patentee of the arrow-head and the scalping-knife,[42] but he also invented irrigation, and taught it to man; and is a general benefactor of our race.

Who acts: Quáh, our · What happens: not be, scalp, invent, teach, be, race · To what, where: inventor, irrigation, man, general benefactor

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 (Quáh, our), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 inventor	nsubj
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 inventor	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 inventor	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 inventor	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inventor	det
6	inventor	inventor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 patentee	cc
8	patentee	patentee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inventor	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 arrow	punct
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inventor	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knife	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
16	scalping	scalp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 knife	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 scalping	punct
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 42	punct
20	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 42	punct
21	42	42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 inventor	parataxis
22	]	]	PUNCT	_	21 42	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 invented	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 invented	nsubj
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 invented	advmod
26	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 42	conj
27	irrigation	irrigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 invented	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taught	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taught	cc
30	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 invented	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taught	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 man	case
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taught	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 benefactor	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 benefactor	cc
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 benefactor	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 benefactor	det
38	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 benefactor	amod
39	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inventor	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 race	case
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 race	nmod:poss
42	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 benefactor	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inventor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Quáh	the inventor and patentee and a general benefactor		of the arrow head and the scalping knife; patentee conj; 42 parataxis	tree rules
2	scalp	gerund					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	invent	past	Quáh	irrigation			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent irrigation=Result
4	teach speech: other	past	Quáh not said here	irrigation	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to man=Recipient
5	is a	present	Quáh not said here	a general benefactor		of our race	tree rules
6	race		our				nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 35