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title: But Nah-chu-rú-chu paid no more attention to the gifts than to the s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Nah-chu-rú-chu paid no more attention to the gifts than to the smiles, and just kept weaving and weaving such _mantas_ as were never seen in the land of the Tée-wahn before or since. Who acts: chu rú chu. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charl
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 17

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But Nah-chu-rú-chu paid no more attention to the gifts than to the smiles, and just kept weaving and weaving such \_mantas\_ as were never seen in the land of the Tée-wahn before or since.

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**Who acts:** chu rú chu · **What happens:** pay, keep, weave, not see · **To what, where:** more attention, such mantas, land

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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 chu), 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:pg77804:10:17
# text = But Nah-chu-rú-chu paid no more attention to the gifts than to the smiles, and just kept weaving and weaving such _mantas_ as were never seen in the land of the Tée-wahn before or since.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	mantas	manta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	wahn	wahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
43	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	since	since	ADV	RB	_	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | chu rú chu | more attention |  |  |  | to the gifts than the smiles | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **keep** | past | chu rú chu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weave** | gerund | chu rú chu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **weave** | gerund | chu rú chu *not said here* | such mantas |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manta=Product |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · passive | chu rú chu *not said here* |  |  | the land of the Tée wahn |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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