The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 98
The false friend jumped for it, but it was unrolled before he caught it.
Who acts: false friend, friend · What happens: jump, unroll, catch · To what, where: last
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 (false friend, friend), 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 friend | det |
| 2 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unrolled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 unrolled | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unrolled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unrolled | aux:pass |
| 11 | unrolled | unroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 jumped | conj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 caught | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unrolled | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the false friend | for last | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unroll | past · passive | last | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | friend | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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