The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 28
If you can, you may have the hoop; but if you fail, you come and roll it to us and we’ll see if we can catch it.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: have, fail, come, roll, see, catch · To what, where: hoop, us
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 can | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hoop | det |
| 9 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 fail | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fail | nsubj |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fail | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 roll | cc |
| 19 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 roll | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 roll | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 see | cc |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 catch | mark |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 catch | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 catch | aux |
| 30 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 see | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 catch | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | may | you | the hoop | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | roll | present | you not said here | hoop | us | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Result | |||
| 5 | see | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | catch a condition, not said to happen | can | we | hoop | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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