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title: _” groaned the Coyote--“I have been wandering with the toothache eve… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _” groaned the Coyote--“I have been wandering with the toothache ever since the world began. Who acts: I, world. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 82

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\_” groaned the Coyote--“I have been wandering with the toothache ever since the world began.

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**Who acts:** I, world · **What happens:** groan, wonder, begin · **To what, where:** Coyote · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, world), 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:pg77804:27:84
# text = _” groaned the Coyote--“I have been wandering with the toothache ever since the world began.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
3	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	toothache	toothache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
16	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **groan** *in a quote* | past |  | the Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present · perfect · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | with the toothache | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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