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description: In a little while she came to the Coyote, who was still walking up and down, howling so that one could hear him a mile away. Who acts: tooth, Coyote, one. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns, with its
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 70

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In a little while she came to the Coyote, who was still walking up and down, howling so that one could hear him a mile away.

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**Who acts:** tooth, Coyote, one · **What happens:** come, walk, howl, hear · **To what, where:** little, Coyote

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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 Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tooth, Coyote, one), 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:pg77804:27:71
# text = In a little while she came to the Coyote, who was still walking up and down, howling so that one could hear him a mile away.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | tooth |  |  | a little |  | to the Coyote | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to coyote=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | the Coyote |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **howl** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | could | one | Coyote |  |  |  | a mile *obj*; away *property* | tree rules |

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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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