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description: Any one who has ever seen the Coyote, or any other of the wolf or fox tribe, must have noticed the alert forward pricking of the ears. Who acts: one, alert. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brave Bobtails, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brave Bobtails, sentence 127

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Any one who has ever seen the Coyote, or any other of the wolf or fox tribe, must have noticed the alert forward pricking of the ears.

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**Who acts:** one, alert · **What happens:** see, notice, prick · **To what, where:** Coyote, alert

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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 Brave Bobtails. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, alert), 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:pg77804:26:129
# text = Any one who has ever seen the Coyote, or any other of the wolf or fox tribe, must have noticed the alert forward pricking of the ears.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	alert	alert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	pricking	prick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | any one | the Coyote |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coyote=Stimulus |
| 2 | **notice** | must · perfect | any one | the alert |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer alert=Stimulus |
| 3 | **prick** | gerund | the alert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the ears | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: 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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