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title: But at that very moment, the two witch-sisters pushed her head forem… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But at that very moment, the two witch-sisters pushed her head foremost into the _pozo_, and drowned her; and then filled the well with earth, and went away as happy as wicked hearts can be. Who acts: two witch sisters. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-storie
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 82

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But at that very moment, the two witch-sisters pushed her head foremost into the \_pozo\_, and drowned her; and then filled the well with earth, and went away as happy as wicked hearts can be.

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**Who acts:** two witch sisters · **What happens:** be, drown, fill, go away · **To what, where:** pozo, Moon, the

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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 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 (two witch sisters), 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:pg77804:10:82
# text = But at that very moment, the two witch-sisters pushed her head foremost into the _pozo_, and drowned her; and then filled the well with earth, and went away as happy as wicked hearts can be.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	foremost	foremost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	pozo	pozo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	obj	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | the two witch sisters |  |  | the pozo | moment | Moon's head *obj*; foremost, push *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drown** | past | the two witch sisters *not said here* | Moon |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the two witch sisters *not said here* | the |  |  | then | with earth; well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent the=Patient with earth=Instrument |
| 4 | **go away** | past | the two witch sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, happy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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