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title: “Friend Coyote, I make strange that the _alguazil_ does not come. — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Friend Coyote, I make strange that the _alguazil_ does not come. Who acts: Coyote, alguazil. 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 47

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“Friend Coyote, I make strange that the \_alguazil\_ does not come.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, alguazil · **What happens:** make, not come

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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, alguazil), 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:pg77804:33:47
# text = “Friend Coyote, I make strange that the _alguazil_ does not come.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	alguazil	alguazil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Coyote  Friend |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; strange *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the alguazil |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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