The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 8
The two young men used to go together to the mountains to get wood, and always carried their bows and arrows, to kill deer and antelopes, or whatever game they might find.
Who acts: two young men, game · What happens: use, go together, get, carry, kill, find · To what, where: mountains, wood, bows, deer
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young men, game), 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 | 4 men | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | nsubj |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | xcomp |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mountains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountains | det |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | advcl |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 carried | advmod |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 used | parataxis |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carried | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 arrows | cc |
| 22 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bows | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kill | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 kill | mark |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 carried | advcl |
| 26 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 antelopes | cc |
| 28 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 deer | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 find | cc |
| 31 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 32 game | det |
| 32 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | nsubj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 kill | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the two young men | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go together | to-infinitive | the two young men not said here | the mountains | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the two young men not said here | wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | Mountains's bows and arrows | always property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | deer and antelopes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find | might | whatever game | deer nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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