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title: So you hold up the cliff while I go and hunt water for us both; for… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So you hold up the cliff while I go and hunt water for us both; for soon you too will be thirsty. Who acts: you, I. 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 every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 69

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So you hold up the cliff while I go and hunt water for us both; for soon you too will be thirsty.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** hold up, go, hunt, be · **To what, where:** cliff, water

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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 (you, I), 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:pg77804:33:69
# text = So you hold up the cliff while I go and hunt water for us both; for soon you too will be thirsty.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | present | you | the cliff |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cliff=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  | for us; both *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Location for we=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | soon, thirsty *property* | 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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