---
title: They urged in vain, but at last, looking down into the _pozo_, called: — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They urged in vain, but at last, looking down into the _pozo_, called: Who acts: sisters. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/78/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/) / 78

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 78

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They urged in vain, but at last, looking down into the \_pozo\_, called:

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** urge, look down, call · **To what, where:** vain, pozo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:10:78
# text = They urged in vain, but at last, looking down into the _pozo_, called:
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	pozo	pozo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **urge** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  | vain |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look down** | gerund | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the pozo; at last; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | the pozo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/77/)
- next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/79/)
- ↑ back to [The Man Who Married the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/10/)