--- title: There were two sisters, very pretty girls, living in Poo-reh-tú-ai,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: There were two sisters, very pretty girls, living in Poo-reh-tú-ai, and they fell very seriously in love, both with this same youth. Who acts: two sisters, sisters. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-gi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/13/) [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 Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/) / 13 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 13 There were two sisters, very pretty girls, living in Poo-reh-tú-ai, and they fell very seriously in love, both with this same youth. **Who acts:** two sisters, sisters · **What happens:** be, live, fall · **To what, where:** Poo, love This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters, sisters), 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:pg77804:22:13 # text = There were two sisters, very pretty girls, living in Poo-reh-tú-ai, and they fell very seriously in love, both with this same youth. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Poo Poo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 reh reh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 tú tú NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 26 nmod _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | two sisters and pretty girls | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | gerund | two sisters and pretty girls *not said here* | | | Poo | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poo=Location | | 3 | **fall** | past | sisters *= sister* | | | love both with this same youth | | seriously *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/14/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)