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title: Sit down, friend Deer-woman, and lay your head in my lap, that we ma… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sit down, friend Deer-woman, and lay your head in my lap, that we may rest.” Who acts: you, we. 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 35

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Sit down, friend Deer-woman, and lay your head in my lap, that we may rest.”

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** sit down, lay, rest · **To what, where:** friend woman, head, lap

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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, we), 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:pg77804:27:36
# text = Sit down, friend Deer-woman, and lay your head in my lap, that we may rest.”
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | imperative | you *not said here* | friend woman |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your head |  | my lap |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Destination |
| 3 | **rest** | may | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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