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title: If she comes this way, asking about us, do not tell her, will you?” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If she comes this way, asking about us, do not tell her, will you?” Who acts: tooth, 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 63

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If she comes this way, asking about us, do not tell her, will you?”

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**Who acts:** tooth, you · **What happens:** come, ask, not tell · **To what, where:** way, tooth · **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 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 (tooth, 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:pg77804:27:64
# text = If she comes this way, asking about us, do not tell her, will you?”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | tooth | this way |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | tooth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about we=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  | tooth |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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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