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title: The Coyote stood off, and the medicine-man sent the hoop rolling tow… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coyote stood off, and the medicine-man sent the hoop rolling toward him very hard. Who acts: Coyote, medicine man, hoop. 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 dependency tree and the pr
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Town of the Snake-girls, sentence 52

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The Coyote stood off, and the medicine-man sent the hoop rolling toward him very hard.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, medicine man, hoop · **What happens:** stand off, send, roll · **To what, where:** hoop

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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, medicine man, hoop), 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:pg77804:22:52
# text = The Coyote stood off, and the medicine-man sent the hoop rolling toward him very hard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	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	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand off** | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | past | the medicine man | the hoop |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund | the hoop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward Man | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory |

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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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