The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 22
While preparations were going on in the village, the antelopes in some way heard of the intended hunt and its purpose.
Who acts: preparations, antelopes, way · What happens: go on, hear, intend, purpose · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations, antelopes, way), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 2 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 heard | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 going | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 antelopes | det |
| 11 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 antelopes | nmod |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hunt | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hunt | det |
| 18 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hunt | amod |
| 19 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 purpose | cc |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 22 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunt | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · progressive | preparations | the village | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the antelopes in some way | of the intended hunt and way's purpose | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of hunt=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | intend | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | purpose | way | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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