The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 4

I have tried for six hours, with the finest drills, to make a little hole in the thinnest part of an agate arrow-head, to put it on a charm-ring; but when the drill and I were completely worn out, there was not so much as a mark on the arrow-head to show what we had been doing.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: try, make, put, wear out, not be, show · To what, where: little hole, thinnest part, hole, charm ring, drill · 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 (I, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	aux
3	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drills	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 drills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drills	det
10	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 drills	amod
11	drills	drill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hole	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hole	amod
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 part	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 part	det
20	thinnest	thin	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 part	amod
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hole	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 head	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 head	det
24	agate	agate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	compound
25	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 arrow	punct
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 part	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 put	mark
30	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 make	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	36 ring	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 ring	det
34	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ring	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 charm	punct
36	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 much	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 was	cc
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 worn	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 drill	det
41	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 worn	nsubj:pass
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 I	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 drill	conj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 worn	aux:pass
45	completely	completely	ADV	_	46 worn	advmod
46	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 was	advcl
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 worn	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 worn	punct
49	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 was	expl
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 much	cop
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 much	advmod
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 much	advmod
53	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	conj
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 mark	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 mark	det
56	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 much	nmod
57	on	on	ADP	_	61 head	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 head	det
59	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 head	compound
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 arrow	punct
61	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 mark	nmod
62	to	to	PART	_	63 show	mark
63	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 much	advcl
64	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	68 doing	obj
65	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 doing	nsubj
66	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 doing	aux
67	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 doing	aux
68	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 show	ccomp
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · perfect	I			hour	with the finest drills	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	to-infinitive		a little hole	the thinnest part of a agate arrow head			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
3	put	to-infinitive		hole	a charm ring			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ring=Destination
4	wear out	past · passive		the drill I			completely property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	not is	past	I not said here				as a mark on the arrow head; much property	tree rules
6	show	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do	past · perfect · progressive	we				what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 4

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 4