The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 57
When Nah-chu-rú-chu saw that, he rose up quickly from his loom and came and took the Moon by the hand, saying, “You are she who shall be my wife.
Who acts: chu rú, rú, You · What happens: see, rise up, come, take, say, be · To what, where: loom, Moon, wife · 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 (chu rú, rú, You), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 saw | discourse |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nah | punct |
| 4 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rú | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chu | punct |
| 6 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chu | punct |
| 8 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 rú | conj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 rose | compound:prt |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 rose | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | 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 | 13 rose | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Moon | det |
| 24 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 took | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wife | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 wife | punct |
| 32 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 wife | cop |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nsubj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 wife | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 wife | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wife | cop |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nmod:poss |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saying | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | chu rú | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rise up | past | rú | rú's loom | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from loom=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | rú not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | rú not said here | the Moon | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument moon=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | rú not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | shall · present | You | my wife | Moon nsubj; who nsubj; my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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