The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 30
They found and surrounded the herd of antelopes, which ran about in a circle when the hunters closed upon them.
Who acts: people, antelopes, hunters · What happens: find, surround, run about, close · To what, where: herd, circle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, antelopes, hunters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 surrounded | cc |
| 4 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 herd | det |
| 6 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surrounded | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 antelopes | case |
| 8 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 herd | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 antelopes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 circle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 circle | det |
| 15 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 closed | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hunters | det |
| 18 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 closed | nsubj |
| 19 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 closed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | people | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | surround | participle | the herd of antelopes | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herd=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | run about | past | antelopes | a circle | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | close | participle | the hunters | upon people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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