--- title: “What do you think, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh?” said the Coyote. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “What do you think, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh?” said the Coyote. Who acts: you, Coyote. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Race of the Tails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/) / 4 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 4 “What do you think, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh?” said the Coyote. **Who acts:** you, Coyote · **What happens:** think, say · **To what, where:** friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, 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:pg77804:16:4 # text = “What do you think, friend Pee-oo-ée-deh?” said the Coyote. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 Pee pee NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ée ée NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 deh deh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | friend and Pee oo | | | | What *obj* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Coyote | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/5/) - ↑ back to [The Race of the Tails](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/16/)