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title: Nah-chu-rú-chu had the pretty _faja_ wound around his waist; and whe… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nah-chu-rú-chu had the pretty _faja_ wound around his waist; and when the wind blew his blanket aside, the other saw it. Who acts: chu rú, wind, other. 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 i
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 89

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Nah-chu-rú-chu had the pretty \_faja\_ wound around his waist; and when the wind blew his blanket aside, the other saw it.

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**Who acts:** chu rú, wind, other · **What happens:** have, blow, see · **To what, where:** pretty faja, blanket

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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, wind, other), 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:pg77804:8:90
# text = Nah-chu-rú-chu had the pretty _faja_ wound around his waist; and when the wind blew his blanket aside, the other saw it.
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	conj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	faja	faja	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | the pretty faja |  |  |  | wound around friend's waist *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faja=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | past | the wind | friend's blanket |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | the other | blanket |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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