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title: “Well,” said the Coyote, “if _that_ is so, I will not eat you, but w… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” said the Coyote, “if _that_ is so, I will not eat you, but will help you watch the chickens.” Who acts: Coyote, _, you. 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 ev
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 21

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“Well,” said the Coyote, “if \_that\_ is so, I will not eat you, but will help you watch the chickens.”

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**Who acts:** Coyote, \_, you · **What happens:** say, be, not eat, help, watch · **To what, where:** you, chickens · **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 Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote, \_, you), 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:pg77804:33:21
# text = “Well,” said the Coyote, “if _that_ is so, I will not eat you, but will help you watch the chickens.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | that \_ |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | future | the Coyote *= coyote* | you |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | future | the Coyote *= coyote* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the chickens |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |

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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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