The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 98

It was true that the great Nah-chu-rú-chu had searched for her in vain, and the people had helped him; but perhaps some one else might be more fortunate.

Who acts: effort, great chu rú chu, people, one · What happens: be, search, help · To what, where: vain, head

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 (effort, great chu rú chu, people, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 searched	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chu	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chu	amod
7	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	13 chu	discourse
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Nah	punct
9	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chu	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 chu	punct
11	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chu	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 chu	punct
13	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 searched	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 searched	aux
15	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 searched	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 vain	case
19	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 searched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 helped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 helped	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 helped	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 helped	aux
25	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 searched	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 helped	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 fortunate	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 fortunate	cc
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	36 fortunate	advmod
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fortunate	nsubj
32	else	else	ADV	_	31 one	advmod
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fortunate	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 fortunate	cop
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 fortunate	advmod
36	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	effort			true property	tree rules
2	search	past · perfect	the great chu rú chu		vain	for wife	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme in vain=Location
3	help	past · perfect	the people	head			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	is	might	some one			fortunate, perhaps property	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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The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 98