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title: “Friend Old-Crosser-of-the-Water, will you please pass us over the r… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Friend Old-Crosser-of-the-Water, will you please pass us over the river?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 105

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“Friend Old-Crosser-of-the-Water, will you please pass us over the river?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** friend, pass · **To what, where:** us, river

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:27:107
# text = “Friend Old-Crosser-of-the-Water, will you please pass us over the river?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friend	friend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Crosser	Crosser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **friend** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | future | you | us |  | the river |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent we=Theme over river=Destination |

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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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