--- title: When all the other girls gave up, discouraged at Nah-chu-rú-chu’s in… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: When all the other girls gave up, discouraged at Nah-chu-rú-chu’s indifference, the Yellow-Corn-Maidens kept coming day after day, trying to attract him. Who acts: other girls, Yellow Corn Maidens. 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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 (other girls, Yellow Corn Maidens), 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:pg77804:10:20 # text = When all the other girls gave up, discouraged at Nah-chu-rú-chu’s indifference, the Yellow-Corn-Maidens kept coming day after day, trying to attract him. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 discouraged discourage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 11 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 rú rú NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 indifference indifference NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 22 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | all other girls | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **discourage** | participle | all other girls *not said here* | | | chu indifference | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **keep** | past | the Yellow Corn Maidens | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | gerund | the Yellow Corn Maidens *not said here* | | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **try** | gerund | the Yellow Corn Maidens *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **attract** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Yellow Corn Maidens *not said here* | Moqui | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/21/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)