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title: “It is true, _ah-bóo_,”[57] said the Coyote, not knowing that the Ra… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is true, _ah-bóo_,”[57] said the Coyote, not knowing that the Rabbit laughed in his heart. Who acts: current, 57, 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 tree and the pragmat
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Race of the Tails, sentence 7

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“It is true, \_ah-bóo\_,”\[57\] said the Coyote, not knowing that the Rabbit laughed in his heart.

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**Who acts:** current, 57, Rabbit · **What happens:** be, say, not know, laugh · **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 (current, 57, 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:pg77804:16:7
# text = “It is true, _ah-bóo_,”[57] said the Coyote, not knowing that the Rabbit laughed in his heart.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bóo	bóo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	57	57	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | current |  |  |  |  | bóo *parataxis*; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | 57 |  |  |  |  | the Coyote *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | 57 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  | in Coyote's heart | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heart=Theme |

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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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