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title: The _rico_ said: “Go and tell him to come here quickly,” and the old… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _rico_ said: “Go and tell him to come here quickly,” and the old woman did so. Who acts: _ rico _, old woman. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 99

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The \_rico\_ said: “Go and tell him to come here quickly,” and the old woman did so.

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**Who acts:** \_ rico \_, old woman · **What happens:** say, go, tell, come, do · **To what, where:** dah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (\_ rico \_, old woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:25:99
# text = The _rico_ said: “Go and tell him to come here quickly,” and the old woman did so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	rico	Rico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the \_ rico \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | dah |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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