The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 37

There is one very sacred folk-story which tells why boys must never smoke until they have proved their manhood.

Who acts: one sacred folk story, boys · What happens: be, tell, not smoke, prove · To what, where: manhood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one sacred folk story, boys), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 story	nummod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sacred	advmod
5	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 story	acl:relcl
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 smoke	advmod
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 smoke	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 smoke	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 smoke	advmod
15	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tells	ccomp
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 proved	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 proved	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 proved	aux
19	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 smoke	ccomp
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 manhood	nmod:poss
21	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 proved	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	one sacred folk story		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	one sacred folk story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not smoke	must	boys			tree rules
4	prove	present · perfect	boys = boy	boys's manhood		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 37