The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 21

At last the matter became such a nuisance to Nah-chu-rú-chu that he hired the deep-voiced town-crier to go through all the streets and announce that in four days Nah-chu-rú-chu would choose a wife.

Who acts: last matter, Moqui, chu rú · What happens: become, hire, voice, go, announce, choose · To what, where: nuisance, deep voiced town crier, streets, 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 (last matter, Moqui, chu rú), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 matter	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 matter	det
4	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 nuisance	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nuisance	det
8	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 rú	case
10	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	14 rú	discourse
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Nah	punct
12	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rú	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 chu	punct
14	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nuisance	nmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 chu	punct
16	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	14 rú	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hired	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hired	nsubj
19	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chu	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crier	det
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crier	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 deep	punct
23	voiced	voice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 crier	amod
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crier	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 town	punct
26	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hired	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 crier	acl
29	through	through	ADP	_	32 streets	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 streets	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 streets	det
32	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 go	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 announce	cc
34	announce	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	19 hired	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 choose	mark
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 days	case
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 days	nummod
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 choose	obl
39	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	43 rú	discourse
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Nah	punct
41	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rú	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 chu	punct
43	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 choose	nsubj
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 chu	punct
45	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	43 rú	conj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 choose	aux
47	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 announce	advcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 wife	det
49	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 choose	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	become	past	the last matter	such nuisance to chu rú			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hire	past	Moqui	the deep voiced town crier			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crier=Theme
3	voice speech: other	participle					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	go	to-infinitive	Moqui not said here	the deep voiced town crier not said here	all streets		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
5	announce speech: other	present	Moqui not said here				vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	choose	would	chu rú	a wife		day	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 21