The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 44
But it did not stick at all; and still from his seat Nah-chu-rú-chu could see, in that mirror-like surface, all that went on outside.
Who acts: meal, chu rú chu, that · What happens: not stick, see, go on · To what, where: all, seat
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 (meal, chu rú chu, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stick | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stick | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stick | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stick | advmod |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 stick | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 seat | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 seat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 14 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 20 chu | discourse |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Nah | punct |
| 16 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chu | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 chu | punct |
| 18 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chu | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 chu | punct |
| 20 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stick | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 surface | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 surface | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 surface | det |
| 26 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 like | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 mirror | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 surface | amod |
| 29 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 surface | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 went | det:predet |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stick | past · do-support | meal | all | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at all=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | could | chu rú chu | rú's seat | still | in that like surface | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | go on | past | that | outside property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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