--- title: He made it, and said to the Coyote: “Friend, go and stand over there… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: He made it, and said to the Coyote: “Friend, go and stand over there; and when I roll this hoop toward you, you must jump and put your head through it before it stops rolling or falls over upon its side.” Who acts: Man, Friend, Coyote, hoop. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, Friend, Coyote, hoop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:22:51 # text = He made it, and said to the Coyote: “Friend, go and stand over there; and when I roll this hoop toward you, you must jump and put your head through it before it stops rolling or falls over upon its side.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 over over ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 hoop hoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 toward toward ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 41 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 xcomp _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 44 over over ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 upon upon ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Man | game | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Man *not said here* | | the Coyote | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to coyote=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Friend | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stand over** *in a quote* | infinitive | Friend *not said here* | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **roll** *in a quote* | present | Man | this hoop | | | | toward the Coyote *= coyote* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme toward you=Trajectory | | 6 | **jump** *in a quote* | must | the Coyote *= coyote* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Coyote *= coyote* *not said here* | your head | | hoop | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through it=Destination | | 8 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | hoop | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **roll** *in a quote* | gerund | hoop *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **fall over** *in a quote* | present | hoop *not said here* | | | hoop's side | | over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon side=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/52/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)