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description: The Coyote then saw that they had played him a trick, and started home, crying “_Ai nana! Who acts: Coyote, Crows. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 23

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The Coyote then saw that they had played him a trick, and started home, crying “\_Ai nana!

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Crows · **What happens:** see, play, start, cry · **To what, where:** Coyote · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Coyote, Crows), 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:pg77804:4:23
# text = The Coyote then saw that they had played him a trick, and started home, crying “_Ai nana!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	nana	nana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Coyote |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | past · perfect | Crows *= crow* | Coyote |  |  |  | a trick *obl:unmarked* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | past | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Ai nana *conj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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