---
title: _’ Tell me if you saw those Fawns, or I’ll eat you this very now!” — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _’ Tell me if you saw those Fawns, or I’ll eat you this very now!” Who acts: you, I. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/79/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Revenge of the Fawns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/) / 79

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 79

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\_’ Tell me if you saw those Fawns, or I’ll eat you this very now!”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** tell, see, eat · **To what, where:** me, Fawns, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:27:81
# text = _’ Tell me if you saw those Fawns, or I’ll eat you this very now!”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	Fawns	Fawn	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | that Fawns |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fawn=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | future | I | you |  |  | now |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/78/)
- next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/80/)
- ↑ back to [The Revenge of the Fawns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/27/)