The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 25
When they had gathered much wood, and lashed it in bundles for carrying, they started off in opposite directions to hunt.
Who acts: bundles, ’s · What happens: gather, lash, carry, start off, hunt · To what, where: ’s, wood, bundles, opposite directions
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bundles, ’s), 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 | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | aux |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 wood | advmod |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lashed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lashed | cc |
| 9 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lashed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bundles | case |
| 12 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lashed | obl |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 carrying | mark |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 bundles | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lashed | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 started | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 directions | case |
| 20 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 directions | amod |
| 21 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 started | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hunt | mark |
| 23 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 directions | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · perfect · passive | ’s = ' | wood obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lash | past | wood | bundles | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | bundles not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start off | past | ’s = ' | opposite directions | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | hunt | to-infinitive | ’s = ' not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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