The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 88
“Ah,” groaned Nah-chu-rú-chu within himself; “it is as I thought--they have done her ill.”
Who acts: it, chóo · What happens: groan, be, do · To what, where: chu rú, 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 (it, chóo), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 groaned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 rú | discourse |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nah | punct |
| 8 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rú | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chu | punct |
| 10 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groaned | obj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 chu | punct |
| 12 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 rú | conj |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 groaned | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thought | cop |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 thought | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 groaned | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | obj |
| 27 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 done | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | chu rú | within rú | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rú=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be speech: other in a quote | present | it | I nsubj; think property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | chóo | wife | ill property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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