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title: When the master heard what had been, he killed the Coyote, and thank… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the master heard what had been, he killed the Coyote, and thanked Big-ears, and gave him much grass. Who acts: master. 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 e
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Honest Big-ears, sentence 39

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When the master heard what had been, he killed the Coyote, and thanked Big-ears, and gave him much grass.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** hear, have, kill, thank, give · **To what, where:** Coyote, Big ears, much grass, master

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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 (master), 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:pg77804:17:39
# text = When the master heard what had been, he killed the Coyote, and thanked Big-ears, and gave him much grass.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the master |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | past | master | the Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | master *not said here* | Big ears |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | master *not said here* | much grass | master |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grass=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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