The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 34
Some time passed very pleasantly, the Hunter going out daily and bringing back great quantities of game.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: pass, go out, bring back · To what, where: time, great quantities
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 (Hunter), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 time | acl |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleasantly | advmod |
| 5 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hunter | det |
| 8 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 going | nsubj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bringing | cc |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 going | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bringing | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 quantities | amod |
| 16 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bringing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 game | case |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quantities | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | some time not said here | pleasantly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | gerund | the Hunter | time | daily property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bring back | gerund | the Hunter not said here | great quantities of game | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent quantity=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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