The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 10
One day, going out on the plains to the east, he stalked a herd of antelopes, and wounded one with his arrows.
Who acts: One day, east · What happens: go out, stalk, wound · To what, where: plains, herd, one
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, east), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stalked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 going | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 plains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plains | det |
| 8 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 east | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 east | det |
| 11 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plains | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stalked | nsubj |
| 14 | stalked | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 herd | det |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stalked | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 antelopes | case |
| 18 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herd | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wounded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wounded | cc |
| 21 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stalked | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 wounded | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 arrows | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wounded | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stalked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | gerund | One day not said here | the plains to the east | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stalk | past | east | a herd of antelopes | day | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | |||
| 3 | wound | past | east not said here | one | with east's arrows | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
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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