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title: The Coyote ran with all his legs; but the Rabbit jumped into his hol… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coyote ran with all his legs; but the Rabbit jumped into his hole and threw out sand, as those who dig very fast. Who acts: Coyote, Rabbit. 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 tr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 36

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The Coyote ran with all his legs; but the Rabbit jumped into his hole and threw out sand, as those who dig very fast.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Rabbit · **What happens:** run, jump, throw out, dig · **To what, where:** hole, sand

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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 (Coyote, Rabbit), 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:pg77804:16:36
# text = The Coyote ran with all his legs; but the Rabbit jumped into his hole and threw out sand, as those who dig very fast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  | with Coyote's legs | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with leg=Material |
| 2 | **jump** | past | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  | into Coyote's hole *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hole=Result |
| 3 | **throw out** | past | the Rabbit *not said here* | sand |  |  |  | as those | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme |
| 4 | **dig** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; fast *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «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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