The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 6
But the _making_ of the arrow-heads is really a very simple matter; and I have fashioned many very fair ones.
Who acts: _, making, I · What happens: make, be, have · To what, where: _, simple matter, fashioned many fair ones
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 (_, making, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 making | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 _ | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | nsubj |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 matter | csubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 making | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heads | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heads | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrow | punct |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 _ | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 matter | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 matter | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 matter | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 simple | advmod |
| 15 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 matter | amod |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 matter | parataxis |
| 21 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ones | amod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ones | amod |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 fair | advmod |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ones | amod |
| 25 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the _ | _ of the arrow heads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset _=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | making | a simple matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | fashioned many fair ones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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