The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 35

They continued to devastate the village, until babies were at a premium, and few to be had at any price; and the only way the people dared to try to circumvent them was by strategy.

Who acts: men, babies, people, only way · What happens: continue, devastate, be, have, dare, try · To what, where: village, premium, price, only way, men

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, babies, people, only 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 devastate	mark
4	devastate	devastate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devastate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 premium	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 premium	mark
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 premium	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 premium	cop
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 premium	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 premium	det
13	premium	premium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devastate	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 few	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 few	cc
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 continued	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 had	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	aux:pass
19	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 few	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 price	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 price	det
22	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 strategy	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 strategy	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 strategy	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dared	nsubj
30	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 way	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 try	mark
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dared	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 circumvent	mark
34	circumvent	circumvent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 try	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 circumvent	obj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 strategy	cop
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 strategy	case
38	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 continued	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	men = man				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	devastate	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	the village			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus village=Experiencer
3	is	past	babies		a premium		tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive · passive	men = man not said here		any price		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»
5	dare	past	the people	the only way not said here			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent way=Recipient clause=Topic
6	try	to-infinitive	the people not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	circumvent not said to happen	to-infinitive	the people not said here	men = man			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location
8	is	past	the only way			by strategy	tree rules

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 Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 35

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 35