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title: “I am thinking, friend Too-wháy-deh, why some have large tails like… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am thinking, friend Too-wháy-deh, why some have large tails like you; but we have no tails. Who acts: Coyote, some, we. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 5

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“I am thinking, friend Too-wháy-deh, why some have large tails like you; but we have no tails.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, some, we · **What happens:** think, have · **To what, where:** wháy deh, large tails, tails

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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, some, we), 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:pg77804:16:5
# text = “I am thinking, friend Too-wháy-deh, why some have large tails like you; but we have no tails.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wháy	wháy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Coyote *= coyote* | wháy deh |  |  |  | friend *conj* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | some | large tails |  |  |  | like you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | no tails |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

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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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