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title: Besides ordinary hunting they have communal hunts--for rabbits in th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides ordinary hunting they have communal hunts--for rabbits in the spring, for antelope and deer in the fall--thoroughly organized, in which great quantities of game are killed. Who acts: runners. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletch
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 41

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Besides ordinary hunting they have communal hunts--for rabbits in the spring, for antelope and deer in the fall--thoroughly organized, in which great quantities of game are killed.

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**Who acts:** runners · **What happens:** have, kill · **To what, where:** communal hunts, fall, great quantities

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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 Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (runners), 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:pg77804:2:41
# text = Besides ordinary hunting they have communal hunts--for rabbits in the spring, for antelope and deer in the fall--thoroughly organized, in which great quantities of game are killed.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	communal	communal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hunts	hunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	organized	organized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | runners *= runner* | communal hunts and antelope and deer |  | the fall |  | besides ordinary hunting; for rabbits in the spring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | present · passive |  | great quantities of game |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «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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