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title: It was true that the great Nah-chu-rú-chu had searched for her in va… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was true that the great Nah-chu-rú-chu had searched for her in vain, and the people had helped him; but perhaps some one else might be more fortunate. Who acts: effort, great chu rú chu, people, one. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fle
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 98

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It was true that the great Nah-chu-rú-chu had searched for her in vain, and the people had helped him; but perhaps some one else might be more fortunate.

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**Who acts:** effort, great chu rú chu, people, one · **What happens:** be, search, help · **To what, where:** vain, head

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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 (effort, great chu rú chu, people, one), 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:pg77804:10:99
# text = It was true that the great Nah-chu-rú-chu had searched for her in vain, and the people had helped him; but perhaps some one else might be more fortunate.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
7	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	else	else	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | effort |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **search** | past · perfect | the great chu rú chu |  |  | vain |  | for wife | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme in vain=Location |
| 3 | **help** | past · perfect | the people |  | head |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | might | some one |  |  |  |  | fortunate, perhaps *property* | 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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