The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 42

As they came where they could see Nah-chu-rú-chu sitting at his loom, they called: “Ah!

Who acts: Maidens, chu rú · What happens: come, see, sit, call · To what, where: loom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Maidens, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 called	advcl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 see	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
8	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	15 sitting	discourse
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Nah	punct
10	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rú	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 chu	punct
12	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 rú	punct
14	chu	chu	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 see	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 loom	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 loom	nmod:poss
18	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Ah	punct
24	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	21 called	discourse
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Maidens = maiden			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	could	Maidens = maiden			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	chu rú	rú's loom	chu property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at loom=Location
4	call	past	Maidens = maiden			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 42