--- title: “Friend Quáh-le-kee-raí-deh, let _me_ do it.” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “Friend Quáh-le-kee-raí-deh, let _me_ do it.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/13/9/) [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 Stone-moving Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/13/) / 9 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Stone-moving Song, sentence 9 “Friend Quáh-le-kee-raí-deh, let \_me\_ do it.” **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** friend, let, do · **To what, where:** Quáh, le This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Stone-moving Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg77804:13:10 # text = “Friend Quáh-le-kee-raí-deh, let _me_ do it.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Friend friend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Quáh Quáh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 kee kee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 raí raí NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 list _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ _ 17 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **friend** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Quáh raí deh | | | | me *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | le | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/13/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/13/10/) - ↑ back to [The Stone-moving Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/13/)