The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 112

For see, there is a _guaje_[28] in your tail, and whenever you would do any one an injury, you must warn them beforehand with your rattle.”

Who acts: _ guaje, you, your · What happens: be, do, warn, rattle · To what, where: tail, one injury

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 (_ guaje, you, your), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 see	case
2	see	see	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guaje	det
7	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guaje	amod
8	guaje	guaje	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 28	punct
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 28	punct
11	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 guaje	appos
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 28	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 tail	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tail	nmod:poss
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 do	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 is	parataxis
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	det
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 injury	nummod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 injury	det
25	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 warn	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 warn	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 warn	aux
29	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 do	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 warn	obj
31	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	29 warn	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 rattle	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 rattle	nmod:poss
34	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 warn	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a _ guaje			your tail; there	for see	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tail=Location
2	do	would	you	a one injury			whenever property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality
3	warn speech: warn	must	you		tail		with your rattle; beforehand property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	rattle		your					nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 112

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 112