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title: The challenger to a game rolls the hoop rapidly past the challenged,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The challenger to a game rolls the hoop rapidly past the challenged, who must throw a lance through between the spokes before it ceases to roll. Who acts: challenger. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattl
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 35

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The challenger to a game rolls the hoop rapidly past the challenged, who must throw a lance through between the spokes before it ceases to roll.

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**Who acts:** challenger · **What happens:** roll, challenge, throw, cease · **To what, where:** hoop, lance, spokes

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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 (challenger), 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:pg77804:8:36
# text = The challenger to a game rolls the hoop rapidly past the challenged, who must throw a lance through between the spokes before it ceases to roll.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	challenger	challenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	past	past	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spokes	spoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ceases	cease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present | the challenger to a game | the hoop |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Agent |
| 2 | **challenge** | participle | the challenger to a game *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | must |  | a lance |  | the spokes |  | who *nsubj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lance=Theme through spoke=Destination |
| 4 | **cease** | present | challenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **roll** | to-infinitive | challenger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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