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title: So he stood up on his hind feet and put his fore paws up against the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he stood up on his hind feet and put his fore paws up against the cliff, and made many groans, and was as if much excited. Who acts: fox. 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 59

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So he stood up on his hind feet and put his fore paws up against the cliff, and made many groans, and was as if much excited.

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** stand up, put, make, be · **To what, where:** hind feet, fore paws, cliff, many groans

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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 (fox), 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:pg77804:33:59
# text = So he stood up on his hind feet and put his fore paws up against the cliff, and made many groans, and was as if much excited.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	groans	groan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | fox |  |  | fox's hind feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | fox *not said here* | fox's fore paws |  | the cliff |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme against cliff=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | fox *not said here* | many groans |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset groan=Product |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  |  |  |  |  | excited *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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