--- title: “Oh, friend Coyote,” they replied, “we are making ourselves ready, f… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, friend Coyote,” they replied, “we are making ourselves ready, for soon there will be a very hard hail-storm, and we do not wish to be pelted to death. Who acts: friend, we. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Coyote and the Blackbirds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/) / 9 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Blackbirds, sentence 9 “Oh, friend Coyote,” they replied, “we are making ourselves ready, for soon there will be a very hard hail-storm, and we do not wish to be pelted to death. **Who acts:** friend, we · **What happens:** reply, make, be, not wish, pelt · **To what, where:** ourselves, hard hail storm · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (friend, we), 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:pg77804:6:9 # text = “Oh, friend Coyote,” they replied, “we are making ourselves ready, for soon there will be a very hard hail-storm, and we do not wish to be pelted to death. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 pelted pelt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | friend | | | | | friends *= friend* *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | ourselves | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Product | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | friend *not said here* | a hard hail storm | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **pelt** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* | | | | | to death | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/10/) - ↑ back to [The Coyote and the Blackbirds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/6/)