--- title: Just as it came near enough the Coyote made a wonderful jump and put… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: Just as it came near enough the Coyote made a wonderful jump and put his head squarely through the middle of it--and there, instead of the gaunt Coyote, stood the Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob, handsome and well and strong as ever. Who acts: hoop, Coyote, gaunt Coyote. 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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 (hoop, Coyote, gaunt Coyote), 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:pg77804:22:53 # text = Just as it came near enough the Coyote made a wonderful jump and put his head squarely through the middle of it--and there, instead of the gaunt Coyote, stood the Young-Man-Who-Embraces-a-Corncob, handsome and well and strong as ever. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 near near ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 squarely squarely ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 31 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 gaunt gaunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Embraces embrace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Corncob corncob NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 47 conj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ _ 52 as as ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | hoop | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | the Coyote | a wonderful jump | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product | | 3 | **put** | past | the Coyote *not said here* | Coyote's head | | the middle of hoop | | squarely *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through middle=Destination | | 4 | **stand** | past | the gaunt Coyote | the Young Man | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/54/) - ↑ back to [The Town of the Snake-girls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/22/)