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title: Just as the Little-Blue-Fox came to some high cliffs, he looked back… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as the Little-Blue-Fox came to some high cliffs, he looked back and saw the Coyote coming over a hill. Who acts: Blue Fox, fox, 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 pra
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 58

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Just as the Little-Blue-Fox came to some high cliffs, he looked back and saw the Coyote coming over a hill.

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**Who acts:** Blue Fox, fox, Coyote · **What happens:** come, look back, see · **To what, where:** high cliffs, Coyote, hill

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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 (Blue Fox, fox, 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:pg77804:33:58
# text = Just as the Little-Blue-Fox came to some high cliffs, he looked back and saw the Coyote coming over a hill.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Blue Fox |  |  | some high cliffs |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look back** | past | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | fox *not said here* | the Coyote |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  | a hill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial\_Location |

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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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