The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 38

But as he caught the hoop when it came rolling, he was no longer Nah-chu-rú-chu the brave hunter, but a poor Coyote with great tears rolling down his nose!

Who acts: COYOTE, rú, great tears · What happens: catch, come, roll, be, roll down · To what, where: hoop, chu rú, nose

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 (COYOTE, rú, great 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 caught	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 caught	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hoop	det
6	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	advcl
10	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 came	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rú	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rú	cop
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 rú	advmod
16	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	20 rú	discourse
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Nah	punct
18	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rú	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 chu	punct
20	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	parataxis
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 chu	punct
22	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	20 rú	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hunter	det
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hunter	amod
25	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chu	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Coyote	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 Coyote	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Coyote	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Coyote	amod
30	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rú	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 tears	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tears	amod
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Coyote	nmod
34	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 tears	acl
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 rolling	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 nose	nmod:poss
37	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rolling	obj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	COYOTE	the hoop		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme
2	come	past	rú			tree rules
3	roll	gerund	rú not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	COYOTE	chu rú but a poor Coyote with great tears	a poor Coyote with great tears conj; long property	tree rules
5	roll down	gerund	great tears not said here	COYOTE's nose		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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 38

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 38