--- title: “Friend Kahp-too-óo-yoo, now I will prove you if you are truly my fr… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “Friend Kahp-too-óo-yoo, now I will prove you if you are truly my friend, for I do not think it.” Who acts: you, friend. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/29/) [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 Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/) / 29 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky, sentence 29 “Friend Kahp-too-óo-yoo, now I will prove you if you are truly my friend, for I do not think it.” **Who acts:** you, friend · **What happens:** friend, prove, be, not think · **To what, where:** Kahp, you, friend, share This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Ants That Pushed on the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, friend), 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:pg77804:24:29 # text = “Friend Kahp-too-óo-yoo, now I will prove you if you are truly my friend, for I do not think it.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Friend friend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Kahp Kahp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 óo óo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 yoo yoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 truly truly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " 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* | Kahp | | | | óo yoo *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **prove** *in a quote* | future | friend | you | | | now | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | my friend | | | | my *nmod:poss*; truly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | friend | share | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/30/) - ↑ back to [The Ants That Pushed on the Sky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/24/)