Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 25

Their meat supply is getting scarce, as the deer, moose, and bear are being hunted so freely by white men.

Who acts: meat supply, white men · What happens: get, hunt · To what, where: bear

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat supply, white men), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 supply	nmod:poss
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 supply	compound
3	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deer	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 deer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deer	det
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moose	punct
12	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deer	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hunted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hunted	cc
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunted	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hunted	aux:pass
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hunted	aux:pass
18	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 getting	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 freely	advmod
20	freely	freely	ADV	_	18 hunted	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 men	case
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunted	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	Indians's meat supply					the deer and moose parataxis; scarce property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hunt	present · passive	white men	bear				freely property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 25