--- title: So powerful were the witches of Nah-choo-rée-too-ee that they felt s… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: So powerful were the witches of Nah-choo-rée-too-ee that they felt safe in proposing so serious a stake; and the people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee were ashamed to decline the challenge. Who acts: ee, people. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/44/) [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/) / 44 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 44 So powerful were the witches of Nah-choo-rée-too-ee that they felt safe in proposing so serious a stake; and the people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee were ashamed to decline the challenge. **Who acts:** ee, people · **What happens:** be, feel, propose, decline · **To what, where:** powerful witches, ee, serious stake, challenge 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 (ee, people), 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:pg77804:3:44 # text = So powerful were the witches of Nah-choo-rée-too-ee that they felt safe in proposing so serious a stake; and the people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee were ashamed to decline the challenge. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 7 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 choo choo NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 rée rée NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 in in SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 proposing propose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 stake stake NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 35 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 bah bah NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 tóo tóo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 too too ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 decline decline VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the powerful witches | | | | of ee choo rée | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | past | ee | ee choo rée | | | | safe *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **propose** | gerund | ee *not said here* | a serious stake | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stake=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the people of bah tóo ee | | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **decline** | to-infinitive | the people of bah tóo ee *not said here* | the challenge | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/45/) - ↑ back to [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/)