The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 20

When all the other girls gave up, discouraged at Nah-chu-rú-chu’s indifference, the Yellow-Corn-Maidens kept coming day after day, trying to attract him.

Who acts: other girls, Yellow Corn Maidens · What happens: give up, discourage, keep, come, try, attract · To what, where: chu indifference, Moqui

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 (other girls, Yellow Corn Maidens), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gave	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 girls	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kept	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 discouraged	punct
9	discouraged	discourage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gave	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	19 indifference	case
11	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	19 indifference	discourse
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Nah	punct
13	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chu	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 chu	punct
15	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chu	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 rú	punct
17	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 indifference	compound
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 chu	case
19	indifference	indifference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discouraged	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Maidens	det
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Maidens	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Yellow	punct
24	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Maidens	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Corn	punct
26	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kept	nsubj
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 kept	xcomp
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	obl:unmarked
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 day	case
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trying	punct
33	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 kept	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 attract	mark
35	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 trying	xcomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 attract	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give up	past	all other girls				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	discourage	participle	all other girls not said here		chu indifference		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	keep	past	the Yellow Corn Maidens				tree rules
4	come	gerund	the Yellow Corn Maidens not said here			day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	try	gerund	the Yellow Corn Maidens not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	attract not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Yellow Corn Maidens not said here	Moqui			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 20