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title: “If that is so, come here and be not afraid of us; for we will be th… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “If that is so, come here and be not afraid of us; for we will be the ones to help you out of this trouble.” Who acts: that, you, we. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 59

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“If that is so, come here and be not afraid of us; for we will be the ones to help you out of this trouble.”

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**Who acts:** that, you, we · **What happens:** be, come, not be, help · **To what, where:** ones, you, trouble

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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 (that, you, we), 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:pg77804:8:60
# text = “If that is so, come here and be not afraid of us; for we will be the ones to help you out of this trouble.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of us; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | future |  | the ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we |  | you | this trouble |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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