---
title: The hunter was much surprised, and, shouldering his game, walked bac… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hunter was much surprised, and, shouldering his game, walked back to the village, deep in thought. Who acts: hunter. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/) / 18

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The hunter was much surprised, and, shouldering his game, walked back to the village, deep in thought.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** hunter · **What happens:** be, shoulder, walk back · **To what, where:** game

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (hunter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:3:18
# text = The hunter was much surprised, and, shouldering his game, walked back to the village, deep in thought.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	ccomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hunter |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoulder** | gerund |  | hunter's game |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 3 | **walk back** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the village | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/17/)
- next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/19/)
- ↑ back to [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/)