--- title: At last Bad said to Good: “Friend, you say that you have good luck b… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: At last Bad said to Good: “Friend, you say that you have good luck because you keep Sunday, but I’ll bet I am right in _not_ keeping it.” Who acts: Friend, Good, I. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Kee --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/25/17/) [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 Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/25/) / 17 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 17 At last Bad said to Good: “Friend, you say that you have good luck because you keep Sunday, but I’ll bet I am right in \_not\_ keeping it.” **Who acts:** Friend, Good, I · **What happens:** say, have, keep, bet, be, not keep · **To what, where:** Good, last Bad, good luck, luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friend, Good, I), 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:pg77804:25:17 # text = At last Bad said to Good: “Friend, you say that you have good luck because you keep Sunday, but I’ll bet I am right in _not_ keeping it.” 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Bad Bad ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 bet bet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ _ 34 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | Good | last Bad | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to good=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Friend | | | | | you *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Good | good luck | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | | 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | Good | | | | sunday | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bet** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | luck | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/25/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/25/18/) - ↑ back to [The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/25/)