The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 73
And lo! there stood Nah-chu-rú-chu, young and handsome as ever; but his beautiful suit of fringed buckskin was all in rags.
Who acts: beautiful suit · What happens: stand, fringe, be · To what, where: chu rú, rags
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 (beautiful suit), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 stood | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 rú | discourse |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nah | punct |
| 8 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rú | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chu | punct |
| 10 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 chu | punct |
| 12 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 rú | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rú | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 handsome | cc |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 ever | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 young | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 rags | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 rags | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 suit | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 suit | amod |
| 23 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rags | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 buckskin | case |
| 25 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 buckskin | amod |
| 26 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 suit | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 rags | cop |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 rags | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 rags | case |
| 30 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | chu rú | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | COYOTE's beautiful suit of fringed buckskin | rags | all 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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