--- title: “You have heard,” he said, with a slow puff, “about Nah-chu-rú-chu,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “You have heard,” he said, with a slow puff, “about Nah-chu-rú-chu, the mighty medicine-man who lived here in Isleta in the times of the ancients?” Who acts: You, Benito, mighty medicine man. 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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 (You, Benito, mighty medicine man), 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:pg77804:8:6 # text = “You have heard,” he said, with a slow puff, “about Nah-chu-rú-chu, the mighty medicine-man who lived here in Isleta in the times of the ancients?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 puff puff NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 chu chu NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 rú rú NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 chu chu X FW Foreign=Yes 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Isleta Isleta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ancients ancient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Benito | | | | | a slow puff and chu rú *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | past | the mighty medicine man | | | Isleta; here | time | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isleta=Location | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/7/) - ↑ back to [The First of the Rattlesnakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/8/)