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title: And will you let me dance, too?” asked the Coyote of the _too-whit-l… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And will you let me dance, too?” asked the Coyote of the _too-whit-lah-wid-deh_ crow (captain of the dance). Who acts: you, me. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 8

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And will you let me dance, too?” asked the Coyote of the \_too-whit-lah-wid-deh\_ crow (captain of the dance).

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** let, dance, ask · **To what, where:** me, Coyote · **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 Coyote and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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:pg77804:4:8
# text = And will you let me dance, too?” asked the Coyote of the _too-whit-lah-wid-deh_ crow (captain of the dance).
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lah	lah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
27	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dance** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past |  |  | the Coyote of the whit and lah and crow |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent coyote=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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