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title: But when the chief witch pricked the hearts with a sharp stick they… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the chief witch pricked the hearts with a sharp stick they swelled themselves out like a frog. Who acts: chief witch, witch. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 35

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But when the chief witch pricked the hearts with a sharp stick they swelled themselves out like a frog.

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**Who acts:** chief witch, witch · **What happens:** prick, swell out · **To what, where:** hearts, witch

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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 (chief witch, witch), 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:pg77804:28:35
# text = But when the chief witch pricked the hearts with a sharp stick they swelled themselves out like a frog.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prick** | past | the chief witch | the hearts |  |  |  | with a sharp stick | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with stick=Instrument |
| 2 | **swell out** | past | witch | witch |  |  |  | like a frog | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient themselves=Extent |

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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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