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title: “It is truly very bad, friend Coyote,” they answered, “but you are b… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is truly very bad, friend Coyote,” they answered, “but you are bigger and stronger than we, and ought to endure it.” Who acts: storm, friends, you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, with i
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 26

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“It is truly very bad, friend Coyote,” they answered, “but you are bigger and stronger than we, and ought to endure it.”

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**Who acts:** storm, friends, you · **What happens:** be, answer, endure · **To what, where:** storm · **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 (storm, friends, you), 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:pg77804:6:26
# text = “It is truly very bad, friend Coyote,” they answered, “but you are bigger and stronger than we, and ought to endure it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | storm |  |  |  |  | Coyote  friend *obl*; bad, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | than we; big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **endure** *in a quote* | ought | storm *not said here* | storm |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance |

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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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