The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 33

[21] The game of _mah-khúr_, which the Pueblos learned from the Apaches many centuries ago, is a very simple one, but is a favorite with all witches as a snare for those whom they would injure.

Who acts: Pueblos, witches · What happens: learn, be, injure · To what, where: Apaches, simple one, favorite, 21

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pueblos, witches), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 21	punct
2	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 21	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 21	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 khúr	case
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 khúr	punct
8	mah	mah	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 khúr	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 mah	punct
10	khúr	khúr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 game	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 21	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learned	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 learned	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Pueblos	det
15	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 learned	nsubj
16	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 21	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 Apaches	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Apaches	det
19	Apaches	apache	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 learned	obl
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 centuries	amod
21	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Apaches	conj
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	19 Apaches	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 one	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 one	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 simple	advmod
27	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 one	amod
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 21	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 favorite	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 favorite	cc
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 favorite	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 favorite	det
33	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 21	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 witches	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 witches	det
36	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 favorite	nmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 snare	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 snare	det
39	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 witches	nmod
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 those	case
41	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 snare	nmod
42	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 injure	obj
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 injure	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 injure	aux
45	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 those	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 21	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the Pueblos		the Apaches and many centuries	which obj	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from apache=Source
2	is a	present		a simple one			tree rules
3	is a	present		a favorite		with all witches as a snare for those	tree rules
4	injure	would	witches = witch			whom obj	tree rules

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 First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 33