The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 89
Nah-chu-rú-chu had the pretty _faja_ wound around his waist; and when the wind blew his blanket aside, the other saw it.
Who acts: chu rú, wind, other · What happens: have, blow, see · To what, where: pretty faja, blanket
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, wind, other), 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 rú | discourse |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | chu | chu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rú | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 chu | punct |
| 5 | rú | rú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 chu | punct |
| 7 | chu | chu | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 rú | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 faja | det |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 faja | amod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretty | punct |
| 12 | faja | faja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 wound | punct |
| 14 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | conj |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 waist | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 waist | nmod:poss |
| 17 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wound | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 blew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 blew | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 blew | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blew | nsubj |
| 23 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blew | obj |
| 26 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 23 blew | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 blew | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | chu rú | the pretty faja | wound around friend's waist conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faja=Patient | |||
| 2 | blow | past | the wind | friend's blanket | aside property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient | |||
| 3 | see | past | the other | blanket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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