--- title: A man of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee and his wife were attacked by Apaches wh… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: A man of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee and his wife were attacked by Apaches while out on the plains one day, and took refuge in a cave, where they were besieged. Who acts: Apaches. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/) / 2 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 2 A man of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee and his wife were attacked by Apaches while out on the plains one day, and took refuge in a cave, where they were besieged. **Who acts:** Apaches · **What happens:** attack, while out, take, besiege · **To what, where:** man, plains, refuge, cave, Apaches This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Antelope Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apaches), 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:pg77804:3:2 # text = A man of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee and his wife were attacked by Apaches while out on the plains one day, and took refuge in a cave, where they were besieged. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 4 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 bah bah NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 tóo tóo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 Apaches apache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 while while VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 30 refuge refuge NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 besieged besiege VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attack** | past · passive | | a man of ee bah tóo and tóo's wife | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **while out** | present | Apaches | | | the plains one day | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | past | | refuge | | a cave | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in cave=Location | | 4 | **besiege** | past · passive | | Apaches *= apache* | | | | | tree rules | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/3/) - ↑ back to [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/)