The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 11
When he went out to hunt, the first game he killed he always dressed and left there for his animal-friends to eat.
Who acts: man · What happens: go out, hunt, kill, dress, leave, eat · To what, where: first game
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hunt | mark |
| 6 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 game | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 game | amod |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunt | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 game | acl:relcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dressed | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 dressed | advmod |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dressed | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 left | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 friends | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 friends | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 animal | punct |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 friends | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | man | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | man not said here | the first game | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | man | the first game not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dress | past | man | always property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | man not said here | there | for man's animal friends | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for friend=Recipient | |||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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