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title: As he went to walk one day near the edge of the wood, he heard the B… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As he went to walk one day near the edge of the wood, he heard the Blackbirds (the Indian name means “seeds of the prairie”) calling excitedly: Who acts: Coyote, Indian name, Blackbirds. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Th
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 2

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As he went to walk one day near the edge of the wood, he heard the Blackbirds (the Indian name means “seeds of the prairie”) calling excitedly:

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Indian name, Blackbirds · **What happens:** go, walk, hear, mean, call · **To what, where:** edge, Blackbirds, seeds · **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 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, Indian name, 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:pg77804:6:2
# text = As he went to walk one day near the edge of the wood, he heard the Blackbirds (the Indian name means “seeds of the prairie”) calling excitedly:
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Blackbirds	Blackbird	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
31	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	xcomp	_	_
32	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Coyote *not said here* |  |  | the edge of the wood | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Coyote | the Blackbirds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the Indian name | seeds of the prairie |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic |
| 5 | **call** | gerund | the Blackbirds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | excitedly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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