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title: The Coyote, coming near and hearing, thought: “Now that is the very… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coyote, coming near and hearing, thought: “Now that is the very song I need to put my _óo-un_ to sleep.” Who acts: Coyote, that, song. 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, with its depende
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Thunder-knife, sentence 4

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The Coyote, coming near and hearing, thought: “Now that is the very song I need to put my \_óo-un\_ to sleep.”

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**Who acts:** Coyote, that, song · **What happens:** come, think, be, need, put, sleep · **To what, where:** song, óo un · **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 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, that, song), 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:pg77804:14:4
# text = The Coyote, coming near and hearing, thought: “Now that is the very song I need to put my _óo-un_ to sleep.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	óo	óo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hearing *conj*; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the song |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** *in a quote* | present | the Coyote *= coyote* | the song *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the song *not said here* | my óo un |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent un=Goal |
| 6 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the song *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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