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title: The stupid Coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The stupid Coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and put her in a bag, and hurried back to the dance with her. Who acts: stupid Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Crows, with its dep
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 13

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The stupid Coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and put her in a bag, and hurried back to the dance with her.

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**Who acts:** stupid Coyote · **What happens:** pick up, strike, put, hurry back · **To what, where:** stick, ahn, bag, dance

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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 and the Crows. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stupid 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:pg77804:4:13
# text = The stupid Coyote picked up a stick and struck her on the head, and put her in a bag, and hurried back to the dance with her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | the stupid Coyote | a stick |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |
| 2 | **strike** | past | the stupid Coyote *not said here* | ahn |  |  |  | on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on head=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | past | the stupid Coyote *not said here* | ahn |  | a bag |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bag=Destination |
| 4 | **hurry back** | past | the stupid Coyote *not said here* |  |  | the dance |  | with ahn | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dance=Destination |

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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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