--- title: When the fourth day came, the Coyote arrived smiling, and threw down… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: When the fourth day came, the Coyote arrived smiling, and threw down his blanket, and stood ready in only the dark blue _taparabo_,[59] saying: “But what is the use to run? Who acts: fourth day, Coyote. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth day, Coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:16:24 # text = When the fourth day came, the Coyote arrived smiling, and threw down his blanket, and stood ready in only the dark blue _taparabo_,[59] saying: “But what is the use to run? 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 taparabo taparabo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 59 59 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 But but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the fourth day | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **arrive** | past | the Coyote | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smile** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **throw down** | past | the Coyote *not said here* | Coyote's blanket | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | the Coyote *not said here* | 59 | | the dark blue taparabo | | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in taparabo=Location | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the use | | | | what *nsubj* | tree rules | | 8 | **run** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Coyote *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/25/) - ↑ back to [The Race of the Tails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/)