--- title: Now, Nah-chu-rú-chu had a white heart, and never thought ill; but th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Now, Nah-chu-rú-chu had a white heart, and never thought ill; but the friend had the evil road and became jealous, for Nah-chu-rú-chu was a better hunter. Who acts: chu rú chu, friend. 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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 (chu rú chu, friend), 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:pg77804:8:20 # text = Now, Nah-chu-rú-chu had a white heart, and never thought ill; but the friend had the evil road and became jealous, for Nah-chu-rú-chu was a better hunter. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 rú rú NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 32 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 42 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 rú rú NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | chu rú chu | a white heart | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | chu rú chu *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | the friend | the evil road | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 4 | **become** | past | the friend *not said here* | | | | | jealous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | chu rú chu | | | | | for a better hunter | tree rules | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/20/) - ↑ back to [The First of the Rattlesnakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/)