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title: In those days Nah-chu-rú-chu had a friend who lived in a pueblo near… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days Nah-chu-rú-chu had a friend who lived in a pueblo nearer the foot of the Eagle-Feather Mountain than this, in the Place of the Red Earth, where still are its ruins; and the two young men went often to the mountain together to bring wood and to hunt. Who acts: chu rú chu, friend, two yo
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 18

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In those days Nah-chu-rú-chu had a friend who lived in a pueblo nearer the foot of the Eagle-Feather Mountain than this, in the Place of the Red Earth, where still are its ruins; and the two young men went often to the mountain together to bring wood and to hunt.

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**Who acts:** chu rú chu, friend, two young men · **What happens:** have, live, be, go, bring, hunt · **To what, where:** friend, pueblo, ruins, mountain, wood

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. 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, friend, two young men), 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:pg77804:8:19
# text = In those days Nah-chu-rú-chu had a friend who lived in a pueblo nearer the foot of the Eagle-Feather Mountain than this, in the Place of the Red Earth, where still are its ruins; and the two young men went often to the mountain together to bring wood and to hunt.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pueblo	pueblo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Feather	Feather	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
37	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
48	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
51	often	often	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	together	together	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
58	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | chu rú chu | a friend |  |  | day | the Place of the Red Earth and Earth's ruins *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | a friend |  |  | a pueblo |  | near *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pueblo=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | chu rú chu *not said here* | Earth's ruins |  |  | still | Earth *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | the two young men |  |  | the mountain |  | often, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the two young men *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the two young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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