The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 51

He made it, and said to the Coyote: “Friend, go and stand over there; and when I roll this hoop toward you, you must jump and put your head through it before it stops rolling or falls over upon its side.”

Who acts: Man, Friend, Coyote, hoop · What happens: make, say, go, stand over, roll, jump · To what, where: game, Coyote, hoop, head, side · 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 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 (Man, Friend, Coyote, hoop), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Coyote	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Coyote	det
9	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
12	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Friend	punct
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stand	cc
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
17	over	over	ADV	_	18 there	advmod
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stand	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 jump	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 jump	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 roll	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 roll	nsubj
23	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 jump	advcl
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 hoop	det
25	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roll	obj
26	toward	toward	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 roll	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roll	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 jump	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 jump	aux
31	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
33	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 jump	conj
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obj
36	through	through	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	obl
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 stops	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stops	nsubj
40	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 put	advcl
41	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 stops	xcomp
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 falls	cc
43	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 stops	conj
44	over	over	ADV	_	43 falls	advmod
45	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 side	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 side	nmod:poss
47	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 falls	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 jump	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Man	game				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Man not said here		the Coyote			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to coyote=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive	Friend					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand over in a quote	infinitive	Friend not said here			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	roll in a quote	present	Man	this hoop			toward the Coyote = coyote	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme toward you=Trajectory
6	jump in a quote	must	the Coyote = coyote					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	put in a quote	infinitive	the Coyote = coyote not said here	your head		hoop		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through it=Destination
8	stop in a quote	present	hoop					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
9	roll in a quote	gerund	hoop not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	fall over in a quote	present	hoop not said here			hoop's side	over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon side=Location

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 51