The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 17

But Nah-chu-rú-chu paid no more attention to the gifts than to the smiles, and just kept weaving and weaving such _mantas_ as were never seen in the land of the Tée-wahn before or since.

Who acts: chu rú chu · What happens: pay, keep, weave, not see · To what, where: more attention, such mantas, land

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 paid	cc
2	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 paid	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Nah	punct
4	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chu	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 chu	punct
6	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chu	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 chu	punct
8	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paid	nsubj
9	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 attention	amod
12	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paid	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 gifts	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gifts	det
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 paid	obl
16	than	than	ADP	_	19 smiles	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 smiles	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 smiles	det
19	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gifts	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 kept	advmod
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 paid	conj
24	weaving	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 kept	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 weaving	cc
26	weaving	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 weaving	conj
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mantas	amod
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 such	punct
29	mantas	manta	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 weaving	obj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 seen	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 seen	mark
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux:pass
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 seen	advmod
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 weaving	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 land	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 land	det
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seen	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 wahn	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wahn	det
40	Tée	Tée	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 wahn	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 Tée	punct
42	wahn	wahn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 land	nmod
43	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 since	mark
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 since	cc
45	since	since	ADV	_	34 seen	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	past	chu rú chu	more attention		to the gifts than the smiles	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	keep	past	chu rú chu not said here				tree rules
3	weave	gerund	chu rú chu not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	weave	gerund	chu rú chu not said here	such mantas			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manta=Product
5	not see	past · passive	chu rú chu not said here		the land of the Tée wahn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 17