--- title: That afternoon the mother of the witch-wife went to visit her daught… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: That afternoon the mother of the witch-wife went to visit her daughter, but when she came near the house she stopped in terror, for far up through the roof grew a great pine-tree, whose furry arms came out at doors and windows. Who acts: mother, wife, roof, furry arms. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, wife, roof, furry arms), 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:pg77804:28:77 # text = That afternoon the mother of the witch-wife went to visit her daughter, but when she came near the house she stopped in terror, for far up through the roof grew a great pine-tree, whose furry arms came out at doors and windows. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 34 obl _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 37 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 45 out out ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the mother of the witch wife | | | | afternoon | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the mother of the witch wife *not said here* | wife's daughter | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | wife | | | the house | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location | | 4 | **stop** | past | wife | | | terror | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location | | 5 | **grow** | past | the roof | a great pine tree | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tree=Product for up=Beneficiary | | 6 | **come out** | past | furry arms | | | doors and windows | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/28/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/28/78/) - ↑ back to [The Sobbing Pine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/28/)