The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 71

The old man prayed, and made a _mah-khúr_ hoop; and bidding the Coyote stand a little way off and stick his head through the hoop before it should stop rolling, rolled it toward him.

Who acts: old man, head · What happens: pray, make, bid, stand, stick, stop · To what, where: mah khúr, Coyote, little way, head, hoop

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 (old man, head), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prayed	nsubj
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prayed	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 khúr	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 a	punct
10	mah	mah	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 khúr	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mah	punct
12	khúr	khúr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 hoop	punct
14	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stand	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bidding	cc
17	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stand	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Coyote	det
19	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bidding	obj
20	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prayed	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stand	obj
24	off	off	ADV	_	20 stand	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stick	cc
26	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stand	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stick	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 hoop	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hoop	det
31	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stick	obl
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 stop	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stop	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 stop	aux
35	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stick	advcl
36	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 stop	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rolled	punct
38	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prayed	parataxis
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 rolled	obj
40	toward	toward	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 rolled	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	past	the old man				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make	past	the old man not said here	a mah khúr		hoop obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset khúr=Product
3	bid	gerund		the Coyote			tree rules
4	stand	present	the old man not said here	a little way		off property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
5	stick	infinitive	the old man not said here	man's head	the hoop		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through hoop=Destination
6	stop	should	head				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	roll	gerund	head not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	roll	past		head		toward man	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme toward he=Trajectory

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 71

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Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 71