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title: But the Coyote did not run; and when the dogs came to him they merel… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Coyote did not run; and when the dogs came to him they merely sniffed and came away without hurting him--though every one knows that the dog and the Coyote have been enemies almost ever since the world began. Who acts: Coyote, dogs, one, dog. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 40

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But the Coyote did not run; and when the dogs came to him they merely sniffed and came away without hurting him--though every one knows that the dog and the Coyote have been enemies almost ever since the world began.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, dogs, one, dog · **What happens:** not run, come, sniff, come away, hurt, know · **To what, where:** Coyote, enemies

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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, dogs, one, dog), 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:pg77804:22:40
# text = But the Coyote did not run; and when the dogs came to him they merely sniffed and came away without hurting him--though every one knows that the dog and the Coyote have been enemies almost ever since the world began.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sniffed	sniff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
37	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
38	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
40	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **run** | past · do-support | the Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the dogs |  | Coyote |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sniff** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come away** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hurt** | gerund | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 6 | **know** | present | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | present · perfect |  | enemies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **begin** | past | the dog and the Coyote |  |  |  | ever | the world *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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