--- title: As she came walking toward them in her natural shape again, they cal… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: As she came walking toward them in her natural shape again, they called: “Remember the agreement!” and with their sharp arrows they killed the old witch-woman and then the old witch-man. Who acts: woman, boys. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Char --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/108/) [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 Magic Hide-and-seek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/) / 108 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 108 As she came walking toward them in her natural shape again, they called: “Remember the agreement!” and with their sharp arrows they killed the old witch-woman and then the old witch-man. **Who acts:** woman, boys · **What happens:** come, walk, call, remember, kill · **To what, where:** natural shape, agreement, old witch woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Magic Hide-and-seek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:15:112 # text = As she came walking toward them in her natural shape again, they called: “Remember the agreement!” and with their sharp arrows they killed the old witch-woman and then the old witch-man. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 toward toward ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | woman | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | woman *not said here* | | | woman's natural shape | again | toward boys *= boy* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory | | 3 | **call** *speech: express* | past | boys *= boy* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | the agreement | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme | | 5 | **kill** | past | boys *= boy* | the old witch woman and the old witch man | | | | with boys's sharp arrows | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent woman=Patient with arrow=Instrument | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/109/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Hide-and-seek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/15/)