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description: [46] The only official method of killing a witch, which is one of the chief duties of the Cum-pa-huit-la-wen. Who acts: only official method. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, with its depen
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Maker of the Thunder-knives, sentence 96

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\[46\] The only official method of killing a witch, which is one of the chief duties of the Cum-pa-huit-la-wen.

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**Who acts:** only official method · **What happens:** kill, be · **To what, where:** witch, one, 46

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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 Maker of the Thunder-knives. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only official method), 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:pg77804:12:96
# text = [46] The only official method of killing a witch, which is one of the chief duties of the Cum-pa-huit-la-wen.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	46	46	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
22	Cum	cum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	huit	huit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	wen	wen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | gerund | the only official method *not said here* | a witch |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the only official method | one |  |  |  | of the chief duties of the huit la wen  Cum and pa | 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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