The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 27

You go half-way down the hill and see if you can catch it when we roll it to you.

Who acts: You, we · What happens: go, see, catch, roll · To what, where: way, hill, hoop, you

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 way	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 half	punct
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 catch	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 catch	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 catch	aux
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 catch	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 roll	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 roll	nsubj
18	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 catch	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 roll	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 roll	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	present	You	way		the hill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down hill=Initial_Location
2	see	infinitive	You not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	can	you	hoop			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	roll	present	we	hoop	you		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Result

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 Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 27