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title: This time the false friend caught it before it was unrolled; and lo!… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the false friend caught it before it was unrolled; and lo! instead of a tall young man, there lay a great rattlesnake with tears rolling from his lidless eyes! Who acts: false friend, tears. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletc
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 105

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This time the false friend caught it before it was unrolled; and lo! instead of a tall young man, there lay a great rattlesnake with tears rolling from his lidless eyes!

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**Who acts:** false friend, tears · **What happens:** catch, unroll, lie, roll · **To what, where:** trial, great rattlesnake, lidless eyes

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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, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:8:106
# text = This time the false friend caught it before it was unrolled; and lo! instead of a tall young man, there lay a great rattlesnake with tears rolling from his lidless eyes!
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	unrolled	unroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lidless	lidless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the false friend | trial |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **unroll** | past · passive |  | trial |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the false friend *not said here* | a great rattlesnake |  | there |  | instead a tall young man; with tears | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rattlesnake=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund | tears *not said here* |  |  | friend's lidless eyes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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