The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 11

But now I shall tell you something that was before that--for Nah-chu-rú-chu had many strange adventures before he married Páh-hlee-oh, the Moon-Mother.

Who acts: I, chu rú chu, chu · What happens: tell, have, marry · To what, where: something, you, many strange adventures, Páh hlee · 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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, chu rú chu, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 tell	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 something	acl:relcl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 was	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	21 had	case
14	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	21 had	discourse
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Nah	punct
16	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chu	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 chu	punct
18	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chu	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 chu	punct
20	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 adventures	amod
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 adventures	amod
24	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 married	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 married	nsubj
27	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	advcl
28	Páh	Páh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hlee	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Páh	punct
30	hlee	hlee	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 married	obj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 oh	punct
32	oh	oh	INTJ	_	30 hlee	discourse
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Mother	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Mother	det
35	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Mother	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Moon	punct
37	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hlee	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	shall	I	something	you	now	tree rules
2	have	past	chu rú chu	many strange adventures			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
3	marry	past	chu	Páh hlee and the Moon Mother			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hlee=Patient

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 First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 11