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title: Then they took away the two wicked old hearts, and put in place of e… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they took away the two wicked old hearts, and put in place of each a kernel of spotless corn; so that if the witches should ever come to life again they would no longer be witches, but people with pure, good hearts. Who acts: boys, witches. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Magic Hide-and-seek, sentence 109

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Then they took away the two wicked old hearts, and put in place of each a kernel of spotless corn; so that if the witches should ever come to life again they would no longer be witches, but people with pure, good hearts.

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**Who acts:** boys, witches · **What happens:** take away, put, come, be · **To what, where:** two wicked old hearts, place, life, witches

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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 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 (boys, witches), 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:pg77804:15:113
# text = Then they took away the two wicked old hearts, and put in place of each a kernel of spotless corn; so that if the witches should ever come to life again they would no longer be witches, but people with pure, good hearts.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kernel	kernel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	spotless	spotless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
36	no	no	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past | boys *= boy* | the two wicked old hearts |  |  | then |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | participle | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  | place of each kernel of spotless corn |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | should | the witches |  |  | life | ever; again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | would | boys *= boy* | witches but people with pure good hearts |  |  |  | people with pure good hearts *conj*; long *property* | 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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