The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 114
“And is that the reason why Ch’ah-rah-ráh-deh always rattles to give warning before he bites?” asked Fat Juan, who is now quite as often called Juan Biscocho (John Biscuit), since I photographed him one day crawling out of the big adobe bake-oven where he had been hiding.
Who acts: Ch’ah ráh deh, deh, I, one day · What happens: be, rattle, give, bite, ask, call · To what, where: reason, warning, Fat, big adobe bake oven · 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 (Ch’ah ráh deh, deh, I, one day), 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 | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 reason | cc |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 reason | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 rattles | advmod |
| 8 | Ch’ah | Ch'ah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ch’ah | punct |
| 10 | rah | rah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ch’ah | list |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ch’ah | punct |
| 12 | ráh | ráh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deh | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ráh | punct |
| 14 | deh | deh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rattles | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 rattles | advmod |
| 16 | rattles | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rattles | xcomp |
| 19 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 bites | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bites | nsubj |
| 22 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | advcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 rattles | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 rattles | punct |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Fat | Fat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | iobj |
| 27 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fat | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 called | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 called | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 called | aux:pass |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 called | advmod |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 34 often | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 often | advmod |
| 34 | often | often | ADV | _ | 35 called | advmod |
| 35 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 Fat | acl:relcl |
| 36 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 called | xcomp |
| 37 | Biscocho | Biscocho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Juan | flat |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 John | punct |
| 39 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Juan | appos |
| 40 | Biscuit | Biscuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 John | flat |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 John | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 photographed | punct |
| 43 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 45 photographed | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 photographed | nsubj |
| 45 | photographed | photograph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 asked | conj |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 photographed | obj |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 day | nummod |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 photographed | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 day | acl |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 57 oven | case |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 oven | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 oven | det |
| 53 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 oven | amod |
| 54 | adobe | adobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 oven | compound |
| 55 | bake | bake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 oven | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 bake | punct |
| 57 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 crawling | obl |
| 58 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 62 hiding | advmod |
| 59 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 hiding | nsubj |
| 60 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 hiding | aux |
| 61 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 62 hiding | aux |
| 62 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 oven | acl:relcl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rattle in a quote | present | Ch’ah ráh deh | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Ch’ah ráh deh not said here | warning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bite in a quote | present | deh | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Fat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fat=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | call | present · passive | Fat | now | Juan xcomp; often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 7 | photograph | past | I | Fat | day | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 8 | crawl | gerund | one day not said here | the big adobe bake oven | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out oven=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | hide | past · perfect · progressive | deh | vn concealment-16-1 «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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