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title: And if you eat all your soup without spilling a drop, you shall have… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if you eat all your soup without spilling a drop, you shall have the Fawns.” 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 152

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And if you eat all your soup without spilling a drop, you shall have the Fawns.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** eat, spill, have · **To what, where:** soup, drop, Fawns

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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:pg77804:27:155
# text = And if you eat all your soup without spilling a drop, you shall have the Fawns.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	spilling	spill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fawns	fawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | your soup |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |
| 2 | **spill** | gerund | you *not said here* | a drop |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | you | the Fawns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=Patient |

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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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