The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 14
Besides being very wise in medicine, Nah-chu-rú-chu was young, and tall, and strong, and handsome; and all the girls of the village thought it a shame that he did not care to take a wife.
Who acts: chu rú chu, girls, Moqui · What happens: be, think, not care, take · To what, where: medicine, chu, shame, wife
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 chu, girls, Moqui), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 4 wise | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wise | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wise | advmod |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 young | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 medicine | case |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wise | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| 8 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 16 young | discourse |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nah | punct |
| 10 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chu | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 chu | punct |
| 12 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chu | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 chu | punct |
| 14 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 young | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | cop |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tall | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tall | cc |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 young | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strong | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 strong | cc |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 young | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 handsome | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 handsome | cc |
| 25 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strong | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 girls | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 girls | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 girls | det |
| 30 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 village | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 village | det |
| 33 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 girls | nmod |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | obj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 shame | det |
| 37 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 thought | obj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 care | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 care | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 care | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 care | advmod |
| 42 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 shame | acl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 take | mark |
| 44 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 care | xcomp |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 wife | det |
| 46 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 take | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | chu rú chu not said here | medicine | wise property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | chu rú chu | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | chu rú chu not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | chu rú chu not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | all girls of the village | chu | a shame obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme shame=Attribute | |||
| 6 | not care | past · do-support | Moqui | a shame not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | Moqui not said here | a wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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