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title: The Coyote crawled into the bag, and all the Blackbirds taking hold… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Coyote crawled into the bag, and all the Blackbirds taking hold of the rope, pulled with all their might till the bag was swung clear up under the branch. Who acts: Coyote, Blackbirds. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 18

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The Coyote crawled into the bag, and all the Blackbirds taking hold of the rope, pulled with all their might till the bag was swung clear up under the branch.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Blackbirds · **What happens:** crawl, take, pull, swing, clear up, hold · **To what, where:** bag, hold, branch, rope

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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 Blackbirds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coyote, Blackbirds), 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:pg77804:6:18
# text = The Coyote crawled into the bag, and all the Blackbirds taking hold of the rope, pulled with all their might till the bag was swung clear up under the branch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
28	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | past | the Coyote |  |  | the bag |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | all Blackbirds | hold of the rope |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **swing** | might · passive | all Blackbirds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **clear up** | infinitive | all Blackbirds *not said here* |  |  | the branch |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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