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title: The Coyote started off, still weeping; and the two wicked sisters we… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coyote started off, still weeping; and the two wicked sisters went home rejoicing at their success. Who acts: Coyote, two wicked sisters. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Town of the Snake-girls, with its dependenc
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 35

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The Coyote started off, still weeping; and the two wicked sisters went home rejoicing at their success.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, two wicked sisters · **What happens:** start off, weep, go, rejoice · **To what, where:** success

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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 Town of the Snake-girls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote, two wicked sisters), 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:pg77804:22:35
# text = The Coyote started off, still weeping; and the two wicked sisters went home rejoicing at their success.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | the two wicked sisters |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rejoice** | gerund | the two wicked sisters *not said here* |  |  | sisters's success |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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