The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 115
And to this day the game is thicker there than anywhere else in the country, because it has not been hunted there for so long as in other places.
Who acts: game · What happens: be, not hunt · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thicker | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thicker | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thicker | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thicker | cop |
| 8 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 thicker | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 anywhere | case |
| 11 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 thicker | advmod |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 anywhere | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anywhere | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hunted | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 hunted | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hunted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hunted | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 hunted | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hunted | aux:pass |
| 22 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thicker | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 hunted | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 long | case |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 long | advmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 hunted | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 places | case |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 places | case |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 places | amod |
| 30 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 long | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thicker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the game | there | day | anywhere, thick property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not hunt | present · perfect · passive | country | there | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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