🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 12

Do you know why the rattlesnake--which is the king of all snakes and alone has the power of death in his mouth--always shakes his _guaje_[19] before he bites?”

Who acts: you, rattlesnake · What happens: know, be, have, shake, bite · To what, where: king, power, mouth, guaje · 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 (you, rattlesnake), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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