--- title: “And now, brother, there is a tail to you,” turning to the tall, gra… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “And now, brother, there is a tail to you,” turning to the tall, gray-haired Felipe[16]; and clearing his throat, Felipe begins about the Coyote and the Bear. Who acts: tail, brother, Felipe. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, brother, Felipe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:6:42 # text = “And now, brother, there is a tail to you,” turning to the tall, gray-haired Felipe[16]; and clearing his throat, Felipe begins about the Coyote and the Bear. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 15 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 18 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 gray gray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Felipe Felipe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 clearing clear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 Felipe Felipe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a tail | brother *not said here* | you | there | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme to you=Attribute | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | brother *not said here* | | | | | to the tall haired Felipe *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to felipe=Result | | 3 | **clear** | gerund | brother *not said here* | tail's throat | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent throat=Source | | 4 | **begin** | present | Felipe | | | | | about the Coyote and the Bear | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/43/) - ↑ back to [The Coyote and the Blackbirds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/)