The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 34
She had long admired Nah-chu-rú-chu, but was always too maidenly to try to attract his attention as other girls had done; and at the time when the crier made his proclamation, she happened to be away at her father’s ranch.
Who acts: Shee, crier, rú · What happens: admire, be, try, attract, do, make · To what, where: chu rú, attention, other girls, proclamation, ranch
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 (Shee, crier, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 admired | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admired | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 admired | advmod |
| 4 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 rú | discourse |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nah | punct |
| 7 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rú | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 chu | punct |
| 9 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admired | obl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 chu | punct |
| 11 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 rú | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 maidenly | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 maidenly | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 maidenly | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 maidenly | advmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 maidenly | advmod |
| 17 | maidenly | maidenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 admired | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 try | mark |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 maidenly | csubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 attract | mark |
| 21 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 try | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 attention | nmod:poss |
| 23 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attract | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 done | mark |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girls | amod |
| 26 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 done | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 done | aux |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 attract | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 happened | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 happened | cc |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 happened | obl |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 37 made | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 crier | det |
| 36 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | nsubj |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 time | advcl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 proclamation | nmod:poss |
| 39 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 time | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 happened | nsubj |
| 42 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admired | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 away | mark |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 away | cop |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 happened | advmod |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 ranch | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 father | nmod:poss |
| 48 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 ranch | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 father | case |
| 50 | ranch | ranch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 away | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past · perfect | Shee | chu rú | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | Shee not said here | always, maidenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | attract not said to happen | to-infinitive | rú's attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect · passive | other girls | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | make | past | the crier | rú's proclamation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product | ||||
| 7 | happen | past | Shee | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | to-infinitive | Shee's father's ranch | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | attend | rú | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | proclaim | rú | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: 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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