The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 31
Day after day they went hunting, and more and more rabbits they killed, growing always more expert.
Who acts: Day, parents · What happens: go, hunt, kill, grow · To what, where: more rabbits, more expert
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 (Day, parents), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 went | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 went | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rabbits | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 rabbits | amod |
| 12 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 more | conj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | nsubj |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rabbits | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 growing | punct |
| 16 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 killed | advcl |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 expert | amod |
| 19 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 growing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Day | day | parents = parent nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | Day not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | past | parents = parent | more rabbits not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | parents = parent not said here | more expert | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location expert=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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