The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 7

The story is very important ethnologically, for it tells much of the strange secret religion of the Pueblos, and more concerning the method of initiating a young Indian into one of the orders of medicine-men--both matters which men of science have found extremely difficult to be learned.

Who acts: story, method, both, men · What happens: be, tell, concern, initiate, matter, find · To what, where: much, method, young Indian, medicine men · 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 Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, method, both, men), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 important	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 important	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 important	advmod
5	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	ethnologically	ethnologically	ADV	_	5 important	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tells	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 tells	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 important	parataxis
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tells	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 religion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 religion	det
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 religion	amod
15	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 religion	amod
16	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 much	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Pueblos	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Pueblos	det
19	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 religion	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 concerning	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 concerning	cc
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 concerning	advmod
23	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 important	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 method	det
25	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 concerning	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 initiating	mark
27	initiating	initiate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 method	acl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Indian	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Indian	amod
30	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 initiating	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 initiating	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 orders	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 orders	det
35	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 men	case
37	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 men	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 medicine	punct
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 orders	nmod
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 matters	punct
41	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	42 matters	nsubj
42	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 important	parataxis
43	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	44 men	det
44	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 found	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 science	case
46	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 men	nmod
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 found	aux
48	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 matters	ccomp
49	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	50 difficult	advmod
50	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 found	xcomp
51	to	to	PART	_	53 learned	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 learned	aux:pass
53	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 difficult	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 important	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the story		ethnologically, important property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	story	much of the strange secret religion of the Pueblos		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient
3	concern	gerund	the story not said here	the method		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus method=Experiencer
4	initiate	gerund	the method not said here	a young Indian	into one of the orders of medicine men	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient
5	matter	present	both			tree rules
6	find	present · perfect	which men of science		difficult property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	learn	to-infinitive · passive	which men of science not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»
8	order			medicine men		nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 7

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 7