The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 94
The old men shook their heads gravely, and muttered: “We are in evil times, for Nah-chu-rú-chu is mourning, and will not be comforted.
Who acts: old men, We, chu rú chu · What happens: shake, mutter, be, mourn, not comfort · To what, where: heads · 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 (old men, We, chu rú chu), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 4 shook | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 muttered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 muttered | cc |
| 10 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 times | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 times | punct |
| 13 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 times | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 times | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 times | case |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 muttered | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mourning | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 mourning | mark |
| 20 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 28 mourning | discourse |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Nah | punct |
| 22 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chu | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 chu | punct |
| 24 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chu | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 chu | punct |
| 26 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mourning | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mourning | aux |
| 28 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 muttered | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 comforted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 comforted | cc |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 comforted | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 comforted | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 comforted | aux:pass |
| 34 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shook | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the old men | men's heads | gravely property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | the old men not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | We | in evil times | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mourn in a quote | present · progressive | chu rú chu | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not comfort in a quote | future · passive | the old men not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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