The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 83

Nah-chu-rú-chu began to look oftener from his loom to the door as the sun crept along the adobe floor, closer and closer to his seat; and when the shadows were very long, he sprang suddenly to his feet, and walked to the house of the Yellow-Corn-Maidens with long, strong strides.

Who acts: chu rú, sun, shadows, rú · What happens: begin, look, creep, be, spring, walk · To what, where: oftener, loom, adobe floor, feet

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, sun, shadows, 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rú	discourse
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rú	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 chu	punct
5	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 chu	punct
7	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	5 rú	conj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	oftener	oftener	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 loom	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 loom	nmod:poss
14	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loom	nmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 crept	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crept	nsubj
21	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 look	advcl
22	along	along	ADP	_	25 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 floor	det
24	adobe	adobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 floor	compound
25	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crept	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 closer	punct
27	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 crept	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 closer	cc
29	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 closer	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 seat	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 seat	nmod:poss
32	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 closer	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 long	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 long	cc
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 long	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shadows	det
37	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 long	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 long	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 long	advmod
40	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 began	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sprang	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sprang	nsubj
43	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
44	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	43 sprang	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 feet	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 feet	nmod:poss
47	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sprang	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 walked	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 walked	cc
50	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 house	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 house	det
53	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 walked	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	60 Maidens	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Maidens	det
56	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Maidens	amod
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 Yellow	punct
58	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 Maidens	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 Corn	punct
60	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 house	nmod
61	with	with	ADP	_	65 strides	case
62	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 strides	amod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 long	punct
64	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 strides	amod
65	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 Maidens	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	chu rú				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	chu rú not said here	oftener	rú's loom to the door		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oftener=Attribute
3	creep	past	the sun		the adobe floor		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Trajectory
4	is	past	the shadows			long property	tree rules
5	spring	past	rú		rú's feet	suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
6	walk	past	chu rú not said here			to the house of the Yellow Corn Maidens with long strong strides result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result

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 83