The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 41
Besides ordinary hunting they have communal hunts--for rabbits in the spring, for antelope and deer in the fall--thoroughly organized, in which great quantities of game are killed.
Who acts: runners · What happens: have, kill · To what, where: communal hunts, fall, great quantities
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 (runners), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 hunting | case |
| 2 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunting | amod |
| 3 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | communal | communal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunts | amod |
| 7 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 rabbits | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 rabbits | case |
| 10 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hunts | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 spring | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spring | det |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rabbits | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 antelope | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 antelope | case |
| 16 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunts | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deer | cc |
| 18 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hunts | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fall | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fall | det |
| 21 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 organized | punct |
| 23 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 24 organized | advmod |
| 24 | organized | organized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fall | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 killed | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 killed | obl |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 quantities | amod |
| 29 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 game | case |
| 31 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 quantities | nmod |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 killed | aux:pass |
| 33 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 organized | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | runners = runner | communal hunts and antelope and deer | the fall | besides ordinary hunting; for rabbits in the spring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Patient | ||
| 2 | kill | present · passive | great quantities of game | which obl | vn remove-10.1 «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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