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title: [31] In those far days, Nah-chu-rú-chu dwelt in Isleta, and was a le… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [31] In those far days, Nah-chu-rú-chu dwelt in Isleta, and was a leader of his people. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 8

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\[31\] In those far days, Nah-chu-rú-chu dwelt in Isleta, and was a leader of his people.

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**What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** chu rú chu, Isleta, leader, 31

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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: 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:pg77804:10:8
# text = [31] In those far days, Nah-chu-rú-chu dwelt in Isleta, and was a leader of his people.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | participle |  | chu rú chu *not said here* |  | Isleta |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a leader |  |  |  | of Isleta's people | tree rules |

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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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