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title: Then it came that all the animals were made; and very soon the Coyot… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it came that all the animals were made; and very soon the Coyote was sent by the Trues to carry a buckskin bag far south, and not to open it until he should come to the Peak of the White Clouds. Who acts: póon, Trues, Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, Doctor Field-mouse, sentence 19

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Then it came that all the animals were made; and very soon the Coyote was sent by the Trues to carry a buckskin bag far south, and not to open it until he should come to the Peak of the White Clouds.

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**Who acts:** póon, Trues, Coyote · **What happens:** come, make, send, carry, not open · **To what, where:** animals, Coyote, buckskin bag, póon, Peak

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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, Doctor Field-mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (póon, Trues, 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:pg77804:34:20
# text = Then it came that all the animals were made; and very soon the Coyote was sent by the Trues to carry a buckskin bag far south, and not to open it until he should come to the Peak of the White Clouds.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Trues	true	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	south	south	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Peak	Peak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Clouds	Cloud	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | póon |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | all animals |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **send** | past · passive | the Trues | the Coyote |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | the Trues *not said here* | a buckskin bag |  |  |  | south *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **open** | to-infinitive | póon *not said here* | póon |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | should | Coyote |  |  | the Peak of the White Clouds |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to peak=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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