The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 83

All the grass and fields and trees were dry and dead--for Nah-chu-rú-chu was the medicine-man who controlled the clouds, so no rain could fall when he was gone; and the eight days he had been a Coyote were in truth eight years.

Who acts: grass, chu rú chu, medicine man, rain, chu, eight days · What happens: be, control, fall · To what, where: medicine man, clouds, Coyote, truth

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 (grass, chu rú chu, medicine man, rain), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 grass	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grass	det
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dry	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fields	cc
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grass	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trees	cc
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fields	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dry	cop
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dead	cc
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dry	conj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 chu	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	20 chu	case
14	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	20 chu	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	25 man	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
23	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 medicine	punct
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dry	parataxis
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 controlled	nsubj
27	controlled	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 clouds	det
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 controlled	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fall	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 fall	advmod
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 rain	det
33	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fall	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fall	aux
35	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dry	parataxis
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 gone	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gone	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 gone	cop
39	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fall	advcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 truth	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Coyote	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 days	det
43	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 days	nummod
44	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 Coyote	nsubj
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 Coyote	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 Coyote	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 Coyote	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 Coyote	det
49	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 truth	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 truth	cop
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 truth	case
52	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fall	parataxis
53	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 years	nummod
54	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 truth	obl:unmarked
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all grass and fields and trees				dry property	tree rules
2	be		all grass and fields and trees not said here					tree rules
3	is a	past	chu rú chu	the medicine man				tree rules
4	control	past	the medicine man	the clouds				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
5	fall	could	no rain					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	chu				gone property	tree rules
7	is a	past · perfect	the eight days	a Coyote			chu nsubj	tree rules
8	is	past	a Coyote		truth	year		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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 83

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 83