The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 77

The people will all be there, old and young, and there will hardly be room for you to stand; and they will all sneer at you and spit upon you.

Who acts: people, you · What happens: be, stand, sneer, spit · To what, where: room

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Drowning of Pecos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 there	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 there	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 young	cc
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 old	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stand	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 stand	expl
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stand	aux
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	17 room	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 room	cop
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stand	obl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 stand	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 stand	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stand	mark
21	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 there	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sneer	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sneer	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sneer	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sneer	aux
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 sneer	advmod
27	sneer	sneer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 there	parataxis
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 sneer	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spit	cc
31	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sneer	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 spit	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	future	the people			all, there property	tree rules
2	is a	infinitive		room		hardly property	tree rules
3	stand	future	you		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sneer	future	people			at you; all property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spit	present	people not said here			upon you	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Drowning of Pecos, sentence 77