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title: [17] The Coyote, you must know, is very stupid about some things; an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [17] The Coyote, you must know, is very stupid about some things; and in almost all Pueblo fairy stories is the victim of one joke or another. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Bear[17], wi
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 1

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\[17\] The Coyote, you must know, is very stupid about some things; and in almost all Pueblo fairy stories is the victim of one joke or another.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** 17, victim, Pueblo fairy stories · **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 Bear\[17\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg77804:7:1
# text = [17] The Coyote, you must know, is very stupid about some things; and in almost all Pueblo fairy stories is the victim of one joke or another.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
22	Pueblo	Pueblo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | must | you | 17  the Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about some things; stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the victim |  | Pueblo fairy stories |  | of one joke | 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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