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title: One day, when the witch-wife was planning to go to a meeting, she st… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when the witch-wife was planning to go to a meeting, she stole a fat young baby and put it to cook in a great _olla_ (earthen jar) in the dark inner room. Who acts: witch wife, wife. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Sobbing Pine, sentence 9

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One day, when the witch-wife was planning to go to a meeting, she stole a fat young baby and put it to cook in a great \_olla\_ (earthen jar) in the dark inner room.

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**Who acts:** witch wife, wife · **What happens:** plan, go, steal, put, cook · **To what, where:** earthen jar, dark inner room, meeting, fat young baby, baby

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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 (witch wife, wife), 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:pg77804:28:9
# text = One day, when the witch-wife was planning to go to a meeting, she stole a fat young baby and put it to cook in a great _olla_ (earthen jar) in the dark inner room.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	olla	olla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past · progressive | the witch wife | earthen jar |  | the dark inner room | day |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the witch wife *not said here* |  |  | a meeting |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **steal** | past | wife | a fat young baby |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cook** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a great \_ olla | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in olla=Instrument |

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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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