The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 130
Nah-chu-rú-chu took it, and descending from the ladder in silence, walked to his house, while all the wondering people followed.
Who acts: chu rú, wondering people · What happens: take, descend, walk, wonder, follow · To what, where: ladder
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chu rú, wondering people), 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 took | discourse |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rú | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 chu | punct |
| 5 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 chu | punct |
| 7 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 rú | conj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 descending | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 descending | cc |
| 12 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 ladder | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ladder | det |
| 15 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descending | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 silence | case |
| 17 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descending | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 followed | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 followed | mark |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 people | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 27 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 followed | nsubj |
| 29 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 walked | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | chu rú | ladder | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | descend | gerund | chu rú not said here | the ladder | in silence | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ladder=Location | |||
| 3 | walk | past | chu rú not said here | to rú's house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | follow | past | all wondering people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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