The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 157

I will stand here, and you there; and if, when I roll it to you, you catch it before it falls upon its side, you may have it.”

Who acts: I, you, game · What happens: stand, roll, catch, fall, have · To what, where: game, you, side

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, game), 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 stand	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	aux
3	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stand	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 there	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 there	nsubj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stand	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 catch	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 roll	mark
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 roll	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 roll	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 roll	nsubj
15	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 roll	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 roll	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 roll	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
21	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 falls	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 falls	nsubj
25	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	advcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 side	nmod:poss
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 falls	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stand	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	future	I			here; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roll a condition, not said to happen	present	I	game	you		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Result
3	catch	present	you	game			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	fall	present	game			game's side	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon side=Location
5	have	may	you	game			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 157

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 157