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title: [105] He is always a hero, and as smart as the Coyote is stupid. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [105] He is always a hero, and as smart as the Coyote is stupid. Who acts: 105, Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 13

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\[105\] He is always a hero, and as smart as the Coyote is stupid.

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**Who acts:** 105, Coyote · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hero

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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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (105, 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:pg77804:33:13
# text = [105] He is always a hero, and as smart as the Coyote is stupid.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	105	105	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 105 | a hero |  |  |  | fox *nsubj*; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | 105 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Coyote |  |  |  |  | stupid *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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