The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 96
“Then I will roll it to you; and if you can catch it before it unwinds, you may have it.”
Who acts: friend, you, last · What happens: roll, catch, unwind, have · To what, where: last, you
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 (friend, you, last), 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 | _ | 5 roll | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 roll | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 roll | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 roll | aux |
| 5 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roll | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 roll | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 catch | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 catch | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 catch | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 catch | aux |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 roll | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 unwinds | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 unwinds | nsubj |
| 18 | unwinds | unwind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 catch | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 catch | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roll | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 roll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll in a quote | future | friend | last | you | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Result | ||
| 2 | catch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unwind in a quote | present | last | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | may | you | last | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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