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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote, sentence 93

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So they hunted about until they found a buckskin thong and some large stones; and the Little-Blue-Fox tied the stones to the Coyote’s neck, the Coyote holding his chin up, to help.

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**Who acts:** stones, Little, Coyote · **What happens:** hunt, find, tie, hold up, help · **To what, where:** buckskin thong, stones, chin

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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 (stones, Little, 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:pg77804:33:93
# text = So they hunted about until they found a buckskin thong and some large stones; and the Little-Blue-Fox tied the stones to the Coyote’s neck, the Coyote holding his chin up, to help.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	thong	thong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | stones *= stone* | a buckskin thong and some large stones |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thong=Topic |
| 3 | **tie** | past | the Little and Fox | the stones |  |  |  | to the Coyote's neck and the Coyote | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient to neck=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **hold up** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* | fox's chin |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chin=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | the Little and Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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