The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 31

The circle grew smaller, and the antelopes began to break through; but the hunters paid no attention to them, keeping their eyes upon the boy.

Who acts: circle, antelopes, hunters · What happens: grow, begin, break through, pay, keep · To what, where: attention, antelopes, eyes

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 (circle, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 circle	det
2	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 antelopes	det
8	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 break	mark
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	through	through	ADP	_	11 break	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 paid	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 paid	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hunters	det
16	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 paid	nsubj
17	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 attention	det
19	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 paid	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 paid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keeping	punct
23	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 paid	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 eyes	nmod:poss
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keeping	obj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 boy	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keeping	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the circle			small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the antelopes				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	break through	to-infinitive	the antelopes not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	pay	past	the hunters	no attention	antelopes = antelope		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
5	keep	gerund	the hunters not said here	antelopes's eyes		upon the boy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon boy=Location

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 31