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title: The witch-sisters made a very gay hoop, and then sent word to the yo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The witch-sisters made a very gay hoop, and then sent word to the youth to meet them at the sacred sand-hill, just west of Isleta, as they had important business with him. Who acts: witch sisters, sisters. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 23

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The witch-sisters made a very gay hoop, and then sent word to the youth to meet them at the sacred sand-hill, just west of Isleta, as they had important business with him.

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**Who acts:** witch sisters, sisters · **What happens:** make, send, meet, have · **To what, where:** gay hoop, word, youth, sisters, sacred sand hill, important business

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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 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 (witch sisters, 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:pg77804:22:23
# text = The witch-sisters made a very gay hoop, and then sent word to the youth to meet them at the sacred sand-hill, just west of Isleta, as they had important business with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	west	west	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Isleta	Isleta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the witch sisters | a gay hoop |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Product |
| 2 | **send** | past | the witch sisters *not said here* | word |  | the youth | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to youth=Destination |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the witch sisters *not said here* | sisters *= sister* |  | the sacred sand hill |  | west *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | sisters *= sister* | important business |  |  |  | with Isleta | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |

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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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