The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 22

The implacable savages by whom they were hemmed in made necessary the abandonment of hundreds of pueblos; and this great number of ruins does not indicate a vast ancient population.

Who acts: great number · What happens: hem, make, not indicate, abandon · To what, where: ruins, made necessary abandonment, vast ancient population, implacable savages, hundreds

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great number), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 savages	det
2	implacable	implacable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 savages	amod
3	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 savages	acl:relcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hemmed	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hemmed	aux:pass
8	hemmed	hem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 whom	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 abandonment	case
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 abandonment	amod
11	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 abandonment	amod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 abandonment	det
13	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hemmed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 hundreds	case
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 abandonment	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 pueblos	case
17	pueblos	pueblo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 indicate	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 indicate	cc
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 number	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 number	amod
22	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 indicate	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 ruins	case
24	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 number	nmod
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 indicate	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 indicate	advmod
27	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 savages	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 population	det
29	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 population	amod
30	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 population	amod
31	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 indicate	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 indicate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hem	past · passive		ruins = ruin	the made necessary abandonment of hundreds of pueblos	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	make	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	not indicate	present · do-support	this great number of ruins	a vast ancient population		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot population=Topic
5	abandon			hundreds of pueblos		nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 22