--- title: [38] Nah-chu-rú-chu’s incantation followed the exact form still used… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: [38] Nah-chu-rú-chu’s incantation followed the exact form still used by the Indian conjurors of the Southwest in their wonderful trick of making corn grow and mature from the kernel in one day. Who acts: chu incantation, wonderful trick, corn, conjurors. 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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 incantation, wonderful trick, corn, conjurors), 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:pg77804:10:145 # text = [38] Nah-chu-rú-chu’s incantation followed the exact form still used by the Indian conjurors of the Southwest in their wonderful trick of making corn grow and mature from the kernel in one day. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 38 38 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 rú rú NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 incantation incantation NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 conjurors conjuror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:agent _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Southwest Southwest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 30 of of SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 32 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 mature mature VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 kernel kernel NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | chu incantation | 38 | | | | the exact form *obj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | | 2 | **use** | participle | | the exact form *not said here* | | conjurors's wonderful trick | still | the Indian conjurors of the Southwest *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | gerund | conjurors's wonderful trick *not said here* | corn | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | infinitive | corn *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mature** | infinitive | corn *not said here* | | | | day | from the kernel | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from kernel=Patient | | 6 | **trick** | | conjurors *= conjuror* | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/144/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)