--- title: They both grabbed it at the same instant, and lo! instead of the pre… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: They both grabbed it at the same instant, and lo! instead of the pretty, but evil-minded sisters of Poo-reh-tú-ai, there lay two huge rattlesnakes, with big tears falling from their eyes. Who acts: sisters, big tears. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/67/) [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/) / 67 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 67 They both grabbed it at the same instant, and lo! instead of the pretty, but evil-minded sisters of Poo-reh-tú-ai, there lay two huge rattlesnakes, with big tears falling from their eyes. **Who acts:** sisters, big tears · **What happens:** grab, lay, fall · **To what, where:** hoop, same instant, two huge rattlesnakes, eyes 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 (sisters, big tears), 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:pg77804:22:67 # text = They both grabbed it at the same instant, and lo! instead of the pretty, but evil-minded sisters of Poo-reh-tú-ai, there lay two huge rattlesnakes, with big tears falling from their eyes. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 both both ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 lo lo INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 minded minded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 24 Poo Poo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 reh reh NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 tú tú NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 35 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 rattlesnakes rattlesnake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 41 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | past | sisters *= sister* | hoop | | the same instant | | minded sisters of tú ai Poo *obl*; both *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | present | | two huge rattlesnakes | | there | | with big tears | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattlesnake=Result | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | big tears *not said here* | | | sisters's eyes | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/68/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)