The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 105

This time the false friend caught it before it was unrolled; and lo! instead of a tall young man, there lay a great rattlesnake with tears rolling from his lidless eyes!

Who acts: false friend, tears · What happens: catch, unroll, lie, roll · To what, where: trial, great rattlesnake, lidless eyes

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 (false friend, tears), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friend	det
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 unrolled	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 unrolled	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 unrolled	aux:pass
11	unrolled	unroll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 caught	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
14	lo	lo	INTJ	_	24 lay	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 lo	punct
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 man	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
19	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 lay	expl
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rattlesnake	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rattlesnake	amod
27	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 tears	case
29	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lay	obl
30	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 tears	acl
31	from	from	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
33	lidless	lidless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rolling	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the false friend	trial		time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	unroll	past · passive		trial				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	lie	past	the false friend not said here	a great rattlesnake	there		instead a tall young man; with tears	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rattlesnake=Theme
4	roll	gerund	tears not said here		friend's lidless eyes			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory

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 105

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 105