The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 18

In those days Nah-chu-rú-chu had a friend who lived in a pueblo nearer the foot of the Eagle-Feather Mountain than this, in the Place of the Red Earth, where still are its ruins; and the two young men went often to the mountain together to bring wood and to hunt.

Who acts: chu rú chu, friend, two young men · What happens: have, live, be, go, bring, hunt · To what, where: friend, pueblo, ruins, mountain, wood

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 (chu rú chu, friend, two young men), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obl
4	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 chu	discourse
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Nah	punct
6	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chu	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 chu	punct
8	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chu	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 chu	punct
10	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 pueblo	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pueblo	det
18	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
19	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 lived	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foot	det
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nearer	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 Mountain	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mountain	det
24	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Feather	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Eagle	punct
26	Feather	Feather	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Mountain	compound
27	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 foot	nmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 this	case
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 nearer	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Place	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 Place	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Place	det
33	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Earth	det
36	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Earth	flat
37	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Place	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ruins	punct
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 still	advmod
40	still	still	ADV	_	43 ruins	advmod
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 ruins	cop
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 ruins	nmod:poss
43	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Place	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 went	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 men	det
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 men	nummod
48	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 men	amod
49	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 went	nsubj
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
51	often	often	ADV	_	50 went	advmod
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 mountain	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 mountain	det
54	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	obl
55	together	together	ADV	_	50 went	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 bring	mark
57	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 went	advcl
58	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 bring	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 hunt	cc
60	to	to	PART	_	61 hunt	mark
61	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 bring	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	chu rú chu	a friend		day	the Place of the Red Earth and Earth's ruins obj	tree rules
2	live	past	a friend		a pueblo		near property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pueblo=Location
3	is a	present	chu rú chu not said here	Earth's ruins		still	Earth nmod:poss	tree rules
4	go	past	the two young men		the mountain		often, together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
5	bring	to-infinitive	the two young men not said here	wood				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
6	hunt	to-infinitive	the two young men not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 18