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title: “Come, friend Coyote, I think we ought to plant this good land again… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Come, friend Coyote, I think we ought to plant this good land again, and this time let us plant it in corn. Who acts: you, I, us. 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], with its dependency tree and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 21

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“Come, friend Coyote, I think we ought to plant this good land again, and this time let us plant it in corn.

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**Who acts:** you, I, us · **What happens:** come, think, plant, let · **To what, where:** Coyote, good land, us, land, corn · **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, I, us), 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:pg77804:7:21
# text = “Come, friend Coyote, I think we ought to plant this good land again, and this time let us plant it in corn.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Coyote  friend |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **plant** *in a quote* | ought |  | this good land |  |  | again |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **plant** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | land |  | corn |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in corn=Destination |

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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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