The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 8

The maker of _puntas_ takes the bone in his left hand; in his right is the stick, against which the selected splinter of stone is firmly pressed by the thumb.

Who acts: maker, thumb · What happens: take, be, select, press · To what, where: bone, left hand, stick, right, selected splinter

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 (maker, thumb), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maker	det
2	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 puntas	case
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 of	punct
5	puntas	punta	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 maker	nmod
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 maker	punct
7	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bone	det
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 hand	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hand	amod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stick	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 right	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 right	nmod:poss
17	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stick	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stick	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stick	det
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pressed	punct
22	against	against	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 pressed	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 splinter	det
25	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 splinter	amod
26	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pressed	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 stone	case
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 splinter	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pressed	aux:pass
30	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	31 pressed	advmod
31	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stick	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 thumb	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thumb	det
34	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pressed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	the maker of puntas	the bone	maker's left hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bone=Value in hand=Location
2	is a	present		the stick	maker's right		tree rules
3	select	participle					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	press	present · passive	the thumb	the selected splinter of stone		against the stick; firmly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 8