--- title: Besides being very wise in medicine, Nah-chu-rú-chu was young, and t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Besides being very wise in medicine, Nah-chu-rú-chu was young, and tall, and strong, and handsome; and all the girls of the village thought it a shame that he did not care to take a wife. Who acts: chu rú chu, girls, Moqui. 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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 chu, girls, Moqui), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:10:14 # text = Besides being very wise in medicine, Nah-chu-rú-chu was young, and tall, and strong, and handsome; and all the girls of the village thought it a shame that he did not care to take a wife. 1 Besides besides ADP IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 rú rú NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | chu rú chu *not said here* | | | medicine | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | chu rú chu | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | chu rú chu *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | chu rú chu *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | all girls of the village | chu | | | | a shame *obj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme shame=Attribute | | 6 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | Moqui | a shame *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Moqui *not said here* | | a wife | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/15/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)