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description: You must know that these witches have dreadful appetites, and that there is nothing in the world of which they are so fond as boiled baby. Who acts: You, witches, witch. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Sobbing Pine, w
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 7

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You must know that these witches have dreadful appetites, and that there is nothing in the world of which they are so fond as boiled baby.

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**Who acts:** You, witches, witch · **What happens:** know, have, be, boil · **To what, where:** dreadful appetites, nothing, world · **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 (You, witches, 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:pg77804:28:7
# text = You must know that these witches have dreadful appetites, and that there is nothing in the world of which they are so fond as boiled baby.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	appetites	appetite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | this witches | dreadful appetites |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | You *not said here* | nothing |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | witch |  |  |  |  | as boiled baby; which *obl*; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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