The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 35

The challenger to a game rolls the hoop rapidly past the challenged, who must throw a lance through between the spokes before it ceases to roll.

Who acts: challenger · What happens: roll, challenge, throw, cease · To what, where: hoop, lance, spokes

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 (challenger), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 challenger	det
2	challenger	challenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolls	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 game	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 challenger	nmod
6	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hoop	det
8	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolls	obj
9	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	6 rolls	advmod
10	past	past	ADP	_	12 challenged	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 challenged	det
12	challenged	challenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rolls	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 throw	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 throw	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 throw	aux
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rolls	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lance	det
18	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throw	obj
19	through	through	ADP	_	22 spokes	case
20	between	between	ADP	_	22 spokes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spokes	det
22	spokes	spoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 throw	obl
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 ceases	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ceases	nsubj
25	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 throw	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 roll	mark
27	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ceases	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	present	the challenger to a game	the hoop		rapidly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Agent
2	challenge	participle	the challenger to a game not said here				tree rules
3	throw	must		a lance	the spokes	who nsubj	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lance=Theme through spoke=Destination
4	cease	present	challenger				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	roll	to-infinitive	challenger not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 35