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title: “Friend Nah-chu-rú-chu, let us go to-morrow for wood and to have a h… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Friend Nah-chu-rú-chu, let us go to-morrow for wood and to have a hunt.” Who acts: chu rú, us. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, 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 First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 22

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“Friend Nah-chu-rú-chu, let us go to-morrow for wood and to have a hunt.”

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**Who acts:** chu rú, us · **What happens:** let, go, have · **To what, where:** us, morrow, hunt

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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, us), 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:pg77804:8:23
# text = “Friend Nah-chu-rú-chu, let us go to-morrow for wood and to have a hunt.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | chu rú | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | morrow |  | for wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | chu rú *not said here* | a hunt |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Patient |

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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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