The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 23

“On the fourth day,” proclaimed the crier, “Nah-chu-rú-chu will hang his pearl _omate_ at his door, where every girl who will may throw a handful of corn-meal at it.

Who acts: chu rú chu, girl, rú · What happens: proclaim, hang, throw, pearl · To what, where: crier, pearl, handful

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, girl, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 proclaimed	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proclaimed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
8	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crier	det
10	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proclaimed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hang	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 hang	punct
13	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	21 hang	discourse
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Nah	punct
15	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chu	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 chu	punct
17	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chu	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 chu	punct
19	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hang	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hang	aux
21	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 proclaimed	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pearl	nmod:poss
23	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hang	obj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 omate	punct
25	omate	omate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hang	xcomp
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 omate	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 door	nmod:poss
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 _	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 girl	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 girl	advmod
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 girl	det
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	appos
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 throw	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 throw	aux
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 throw	aux
37	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 girl	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 handful	det
39	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 throw	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 meal	case
41	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 meal	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 corn	punct
43	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 handful	nmod
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 throw	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 proclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proclaim	past		the crier		day		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crier=Theme
2	hang in a quote	future	chu rú chu	rú's pearl			omate property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient
3	throw in a quote	may · future	every girl	a handful of corn meal	pearl			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme at it=Destination
4	pearl in a quote		rú					nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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 tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 23