The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 19
Now, Nah-chu-rú-chu had a white heart, and never thought ill; but the friend had the evil road and became jealous, for Nah-chu-rú-chu was a better hunter.
Who acts: chu rú chu, friend · What happens: have, not think, become, be · To what, where: white heart, evil road
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 chu | discourse |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nah | punct |
| 5 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chu | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 chu | punct |
| 7 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chu | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chu | punct |
| 9 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 thought | advmod |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | conj |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thought | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 friend | det |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 25 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 road | amod |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | conj |
| 29 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 became | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hunter | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 hunter | case |
| 32 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 42 hunter | discourse |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Nah | punct |
| 34 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chu | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 chu | punct |
| 36 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chu | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 chu | punct |
| 38 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hunter | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 hunter | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 hunter | det |
| 41 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 hunter | amod |
| 42 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | chu rú chu | a white heart | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past | chu rú chu not said here | ill property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the friend | the evil road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the friend not said here | jealous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | chu rú chu | for a better hunter | 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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