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title: “Friend Too-wháy-deh, it is long that I am holding up the cliff, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Friend Too-wháy-deh, it is long that I am holding up the cliff, and I am very tired and thirsty. Who acts: wháy deh, Blue Fox. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 67

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“Friend Too-wháy-deh, it is long that I am holding up the cliff, and I am very tired and thirsty.

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**Who acts:** wháy deh, Blue Fox · **What happens:** be, hold up · **To what, where:** cliff

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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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wháy deh, Blue Fox), 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:pg77804:33:67
# text = “Friend Too-wháy-deh, it is long that I am holding up the cliff, and I am very tired and thirsty.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wháy	wháy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wháy deh |  |  |  |  | side *nsubj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Blue Fox *= fox* | the cliff |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cliff=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Blue Fox *= fox* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the Blue Fox *= fox* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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