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title: The false friend begged for another trial; so Nah-chu-rú-chu rolled… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The false friend begged for another trial; so Nah-chu-rú-chu rolled it again. Who acts: false friend. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 104

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The false friend begged for another trial; so Nah-chu-rú-chu rolled it again.

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**Who acts:** false friend · **What happens:** beg, roll · **To what, where:** false friend, trial

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false friend), 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:pg77804:8:105
# text = The false friend begged for another trial; so Nah-chu-rú-chu rolled it again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
10	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle |  | the false friend *not said here* |  |  |  | for another trial | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for trial=Topic |
| 2 | **roll** | past | the false friend | trial |  |  | again | chu rú chu *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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