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title: “Friends boys, if an old Wolf comes along and asks if you have seen… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Friends boys, if an old Wolf comes along and asks if you have seen us, don’t tell her, will you?” Who acts: old Wolf, you, Friends boys. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 88

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“Friends boys, if an old Wolf comes along and asks if you have seen us, don’t tell her, will you?”

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**Who acts:** old Wolf, you, Friends boys · **What happens:** come along, ask, see, not tell · **To what, where:** us, treachery · **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 (old Wolf, you, Friends boys), 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:pg77804:27:90
# text = “Friends boys, if an old Wolf comes along and asks if you have seen us, don’t tell her, will you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | a old Wolf |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | a old Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | you | us |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Friends boys |  | treachery |  |  |  | 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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