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description: And to this day the game is thicker there than anywhere else in the country, because it has not been hunted there for so long as in other places. Who acts: game. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek, wi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 115

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And to this day the game is thicker there than anywhere else in the country, because it has not been hunted there for so long as in other places.

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**Who acts:** game · **What happens:** be, not hunt · **To what, where:** country

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:15:119
# text = And to this day the game is thicker there than anywhere else in the country, because it has not been hunted there for so long as in other places.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the game |  |  | there | day | anywhere, thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hunt** | present · perfect · passive |  | country |  | there |  | long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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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