--- title: The people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee burned all the witches upon the spo… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: The people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee burned all the witches upon the spot, in a great pile of corn; but somehow one escaped, and from him come all the witches that trouble us to this day. Who acts: people, one. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/86/) [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/) / 86 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Antelope Boy, sentence 86 The people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee burned all the witches upon the spot, in a great pile of corn; but somehow one escaped, and from him come all the witches that trouble us to this day. **Who acts:** people, one · **What happens:** burn, escape, come · **To what, where:** witches, great pile 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 (people, one), 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:pg77804:3:88 # text = The people of Nah-bah-tóo-too-ee burned all the witches upon the spot, in a great pile of corn; but somehow one escaped, and from him come all the witches that trouble us to this day. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 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 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nsubj _ _ 31 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 36 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 det _ _ 41 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | past | the people of ee bah tóo | all witches | | a great pile of corn | | upon the spot | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | | 2 | **escape** | past | one | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | one *not said here* | all witches and that trouble us | | | day | from tóo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/87/) - ↑ back to [The Antelope Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/3/)