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title: The Old-Woman-Coyote followed running, crying: “_Ay, Nana! — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Old-Woman-Coyote followed running, crying: “_Ay, Nana! Who acts: Old Woman. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Honest Big-ears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 36

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The Old-Woman-Coyote followed running, crying: “\_Ay, Nana!

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**Who acts:** Old Woman · **What happens:** follow, run, cry · **To what, where:** Ay Nana

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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, Honest Big-ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Woman), 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:pg77804:17:36
# text = The Old-Woman-Coyote followed running, crying: “_Ay, Nana!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Ay	Ay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the Old Woman | Ay Nana |  |  |  | Coyote *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the Old Woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the Old Woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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