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title: The Rabbit made a sad face, and the Coyote said: “But come, friend P… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rabbit made a sad face, and the Coyote said: “But come, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh, let us run a race. Who acts: Rabbit, Coyote, us. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Race of the Tails, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 11

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The Rabbit made a sad face, and the Coyote said: “But come, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh, let us run a race.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, Coyote, us · **What happens:** make, say, come, let, run · **To what, where:** sad face, friend, us, race · **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 Race of the Tails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, Coyote, us), 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:pg77804:16:11
# text = The Rabbit made a sad face, and the Coyote said: “But come, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh, let us run a race.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Pee	pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ée	ée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Rabbit | a sad face |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | friend and Pee oo |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | a race |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=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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