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title: But as he came to a pool, half-way home, a flock of Afraids-of-the-W… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he came to a pool, half-way home, a flock of Afraids-of-the-Water[48] flew up at his very nose, and drove out his memory. Who acts: Coyote, flock. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, w
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 16

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But as he came to a pool, half-way home, a flock of Afraids-of-the-Water\[48\] flew up at his very nose, and drove out his memory.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, flock · **What happens:** come, fly up, drive out · **To what, where:** pool, nose, memory

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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 Thunder-knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote, flock), 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:pg77804:14:16
# text = But as he came to a pool, half-way home, a flock of Afraids-of-the-Water[48] flew up at his very nose, and drove out his memory.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Afraids	afraid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Coyote |  |  | a pool |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fly up** | past | a flock |  |  | Coyote's nose |  | Afraids of the Water *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nose=Location |
| 3 | **drive out** | past | a flock *not said here* | Coyote's memory |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme memory=Trajectory |

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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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