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title: Ees-tée-ah Muts hurried home to Acoma and killed two sheep; for he k… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ees-tée-ah Muts hurried home to Acoma and killed two sheep; for he knew, as every Indian knows, that it was useless to try to escape from the witches. Who acts: Ees, Acoma, Indian, it. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 33

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Ees-tée-ah Muts hurried home to Acoma and killed two sheep; for he knew, as every Indian knows, that it was useless to try to escape from the witches.

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**Who acts:** Ees, Acoma, Indian, it · **What happens:** hurry, kill, know, be, try, escape · **To what, where:** Acoma, two sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 Sobbing Pine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ees, Acoma, Indian, it), 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:pg77804:28:33
# text = Ees-tée-ah Muts hurried home to Acoma and killed two sheep; for he knew, as every Indian knows, that it was useless to try to escape from the witches.
1	Ees	ee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Acoma	Acoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	csubj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | past | Ees and tée |  | Acoma |  |  | Muts *nsubj*; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to acoma=Result |
| 2 | **kill** | past | Ees and tée *not said here* | two sheep |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | Acoma |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **know** | present | every Indian |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from the witches | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from witch=Initial\_Location |

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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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