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title: So they kept it up until they were too tired to throw any more; and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they kept it up until they were too tired to throw any more; and as for the Coyote, he was so bruised and sore that he could hardly move. Who acts: hearts, Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Bla
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 34

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So they kept it up until they were too tired to throw any more; and as for the Coyote, he was so bruised and sore that he could hardly move.

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**Who acts:** hearts, Coyote · **What happens:** keep up, be, throw, bruise, move · **To what, where:** hold, Coyote

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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 (hearts, Coyote), 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:pg77804:6:34
# text = So they kept it up until they were too tired to throw any more; and as for the Coyote, he was so bruised and sore that he could hardly move.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	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 | **keep up** | past | hearts *= heart* | hold |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | hearts *= heart* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive | hearts *= heart* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bruise** | past · passive |  | Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **move** | could | Coyote |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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