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title: And lo! there stood Nah-chu-rú-chu, young and handsome as ever; but… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And lo! there stood Nah-chu-rú-chu, young and handsome as ever; but his beautiful suit of fringed buckskin was all in rags. Who acts: beautiful suit. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 73

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And lo! there stood Nah-chu-rú-chu, young and handsome as ever; but his beautiful suit of fringed buckskin was all in rags.

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**Who acts:** beautiful suit · **What happens:** stand, fringe, be · **To what, where:** chu rú, rags

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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 (beautiful suit), 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:pg77804:8:74
# text = And lo! there stood Nah-chu-rú-chu, young and handsome as ever; but his beautiful suit of fringed buckskin was all in rags.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | chu rú |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | COYOTE's beautiful suit of fringed buckskin |  |  | rags |  | all *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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