The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 36

[42] Which were formerly about the same thing--a large and sharp-edged arrow-head or similar stone being the only knife of the Pueblos in prehistoric times.

Who acts: 42, edged arrow head · What happens: be, edge · To what, where: same thing, large only knife

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 (42, edged arrow head), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 42	punct
2	42	42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 thing	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 42	punct
4	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
6	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	10 thing	advmod
7	about	about	ADV	_	10 thing	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 knife	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 knife	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knife	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 head	cc
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 edged	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sharp	punct
17	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 head	amod
18	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 arrow	punct
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knife	nsubj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 stone	cc
22	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stone	amod
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	conj
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 knife	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knife	det
26	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knife	amod
27	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Pueblos	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Pueblos	det
30	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 knife	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 times	case
32	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 times	amod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knife	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	42	the same thing		Which nsubj; about, formerly property	tree rules
2	edge	participle					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	is a	gerund	edged arrow head or similar stone	a large only knife	time	of the Pueblos	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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 36