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title: One day a Coyote was passing, and heard the Crows singing and dancin… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a Coyote was passing, and heard the Crows singing and dancing under this tree, and came up to watch them. 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
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Crows, sentence 3

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One day a Coyote was passing, and heard the Crows singing and dancing under this tree, and came up to watch them.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Crows · **What happens:** pass, hear, sing, dance, come up, watch · **To what, where:** Crows, tree

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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:pg77804:4:3
# text = One day a Coyote was passing, and heard the Crows singing and dancing under this tree, and came up to watch them.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · progressive | a Coyote |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  | the Crows |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the Crows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | gerund | the Crows *not said here* |  |  | this tree |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |
| 5 | **come up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  | Crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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