The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 85

But as Nah-chu-rú-chu came down the hill, it began to rain again, and all the people were glad.

Who acts: chu rú, rú, people · What happens: come down, begin, be · To what, where: hill, rain

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, rú, people), 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	_	16 began	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
3	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 came	discourse
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Nah	punct
5	chu	chu	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rú	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 chu	punct
7	rú	rú	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 chu	punct
9	chu	chu	X	Foreign=Yes	7 rú	conj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 began	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rain	mark
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	xcomp
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 began	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glad	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 glad	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 people	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 glad	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 glad	cop
26	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 began	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	chu rú	the hill			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme
2	begin	past	rú	rain	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	past	all people			glad 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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 85