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title: But, alas! she was secretly a witch and every night when Ees-tée-ah… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But, alas! she was secretly a witch and every night when Ees-tée-ah Muts was asleep she used to fly away to the mountains, where the witches held their uncanny meetings. Who acts: squirrel, Ees, witches. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fl
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 6

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But, alas! she was secretly a witch and every night when Ees-tée-ah Muts was asleep she used to fly away to the mountains, where the witches held their uncanny meetings.

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**Who acts:** squirrel, Ees, witches · **What happens:** be, use, fly away, hold · **To what, where:** witch, uncanny meetings

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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 (squirrel, Ees, witches), 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:pg77804:28:6
# text = But, alas! she was secretly a witch and every night when Ees-tée-ah Muts was asleep she used to fly away to the mountains, where the witches held their uncanny meetings.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
14	Ees	ee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tée	tée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	16	appos	_	_
19	Muts	mut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	vocative	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | squirrel | a witch and every night |  |  |  | secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ees |  |  |  |  | tée *nsubj*; asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | squirrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fly away** | to-infinitive | squirrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the mountains *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the witches | witch's uncanny meetings |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme |

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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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