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title: But it did not stick at all; and still from his seat Nah-chu-rú-chu… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it did not stick at all; and still from his seat Nah-chu-rú-chu could see, in that mirror-like surface, all that went on outside. Who acts: meal, chu rú chu, that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married t
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 44

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But it did not stick at all; and still from his seat Nah-chu-rú-chu could see, in that mirror-like surface, all that went on outside.

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**Who acts:** meal, chu rú chu, that · **What happens:** not stick, see, go on · **To what, where:** all, seat

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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 (meal, chu rú chu, that), 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:pg77804:10:44
# text = But it did not stick at all; and still from his seat Nah-chu-rú-chu could see, in that mirror-like surface, all that went on outside.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
14	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
26	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stick** | past · do-support | meal |  |  | all |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at all=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | could | chu rú chu |  |  | rú's seat | still | in that like surface | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go on** | past | that |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «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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