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title: Nah-chu-rú-chu took it, and descending from the ladder in silence, w… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nah-chu-rú-chu took it, and descending from the ladder in silence, walked to his house, while all the wondering people followed. Who acts: chu rú, wondering people. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 130

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Nah-chu-rú-chu took it, and descending from the ladder in silence, walked to his house, while all the wondering people followed.

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**Who acts:** chu rú, wondering people · **What happens:** take, descend, walk, wonder, follow · **To what, where:** ladder

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. 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, wondering people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:10:131
# text = Nah-chu-rú-chu took it, and descending from the ladder in silence, walked to his house, while all the wondering people followed.
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	conj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | chu rú | ladder |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **descend** | gerund | chu rú *not said here* |  |  | the ladder |  | in silence | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ladder=Location |
| 3 | **walk** | past | chu rú *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to rú's house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **follow** | past | all wondering people |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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