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title: And ever since, even to this day, he has been following them to eat… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ever since, even to this day, he has been following them to eat them, and that is why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are always at war. Who acts: Coyote, that. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Blackbi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 39

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And ever since, even to this day, he has been following them to eat them, and that is why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are always at war.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, that · **What happens:** follow, eat, be · **To what, where:** Blackbirds, war

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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, that), 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:pg77804:6:39
# text = And ever since, even to this day, he has been following them to eat them, and that is why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are always at war.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	since	since	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Blackbirds	Blackbird	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present · perfect · progressive | Coyote | Blackbirds *= blackbird* |  |  | ever | since *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Coyote *not said here* | Blackbirds *= blackbird* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Coyote and the Blackbirds |  |  | war |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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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