--- title: When harvest-time came, the Coyote went and cut off all the potato-t… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: When harvest-time came, the Coyote went and cut off all the potato-tops at the ground and carried them home, and afterward the Bear scratched out the potatoes from the ground with his big claws and took them to his house. Who acts: harvest time, Coyote, Bear. 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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 (harvest time, Coyote, Bear), 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:pg77804:7:13 # text = When harvest-time came, the Coyote went and cut off all the potato-tops at the ground and carried them home, and afterward the Bear scratched out the potatoes from the ground with his big claws and took them to his house. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 home home ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 afterward afterward SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | harvest time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | the Coyote | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut off** | participle | the Coyote *not said here* | all potato tops at the ground | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **carry** | past | the Coyote *not said here* | bear | | | | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **scratch out** | past | the Bear | the potatoes | | the ground | | with Coyote's big claws | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.instrument»: agent=Agent potato=Patient from ground=Source with claw=Instrument | | 6 | **take** | past | the Coyote *not said here* | bear | | Coyote's house | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/14/) - ↑ back to [The Coyote and the Bear\[17\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/)