The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 1

“NOW there is a tail to you, _compadre_ [friend],” said old Desiderio, nodding at Patricio[18] after we had sat awhile in silence around the crackling fire.

Who acts: tail, we · What happens: be, say, nod, sit · To what, where: tail, you, Patricio, silence · 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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 tail	punct
2	NOW	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 is	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tail	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tail	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 compadre	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 compadre	punct
11	compadre	compadre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	conj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 compadre	punct
13	[	[	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 compadre	appos
15	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tail	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tail	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Desiderio	amod
20	Desiderio	Desiderio	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nodding	punct
22	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Patricio	case
24	Patricio	Patricio	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 nodding	obl
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	26 18	punct
26	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 Patricio	appos
27	]	]	PUNCT	_	26 18	punct
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 sat	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 sat	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sat	aux
31	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
32	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	31 sat	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 silence	case
34	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
35	around	around	ADP	_	38 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fire	det
37	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fire	compound
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a tail and compadre	you		compadre conj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a tail and compadre				old Desiderio nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	nod	gerund	a tail and compadre not said here			Patricio		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past · perfect	we			silence	around the crackling fire; awhile property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=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 First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 1