--- title: “Oh, no, friend Too-wháy-deh!” said the other; “for I saw this cliff… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, no, friend Too-wháy-deh!” said the other; “for I saw this cliff falling down, and ran to hold it up. Who acts: friend, cliff. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, cliff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:33:62 # text = “Oh, no, friend Too-wháy-deh!” said the other; “for I saw this cliff falling down, and ran to hold it up. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 7 Too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 wháy wháy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | friend wháy deh | the other | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | friend wháy deh *= friend* | this cliff | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cliff=Stimulus | | 3 | **fall down** *in a quote* | gerund | this cliff *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** *in a quote* | past | friend wháy deh *= friend* *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **hold up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | friend wháy deh *= friend* *not said here* | trail | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/33/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/33/63/) - ↑ back to [The Coyote](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/33/)