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title: The Coyote paid no attention to her, but kept walking with his hand… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coyote paid no attention to her, but kept walking with his hand to his mouth, groaning, “_Mm-m-páh! Who acts: Coyote. 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 dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 73

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The Coyote paid no attention to her, but kept walking with his hand to his mouth, groaning, “\_Mm-m-páh!

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**Who acts:** Coyote · **What happens:** pay, keep, walk, groan · **To what, where:** attention, tooth, m páh

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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 (Coyote), 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:pg77804:27:74
# text = The Coyote paid no attention to her, but kept walking with his hand to his mouth, groaning, “_Mm-m-páh!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	páh	páh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the Coyote | no attention | tooth |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Coyote's hand; to Coyote's mouth *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouth=Result |
| 4 | **groan** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* | m páh |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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