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title: “Won’t you show me how, friend?” asked the Coyote, fainting with hun… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Won’t you show me how, friend?” asked the Coyote, fainting with hunger at the smell of the fish. Who acts: you, Coyote, fish. 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 the 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 34

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“Won’t you show me how, friend?” asked the Coyote, fainting with hunger at the smell of the fish.

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**Who acts:** you, Coyote, fish · **What happens:** not show, ask, faint, smell · **To what, where:** Coyote · **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, Coyote, fish), 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:pg77804:7:34
# text = “Won’t you show me how, friend?” asked the Coyote, fainting with hunger at the smell of the fish.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wo	wo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **show** *in a quote* | present | you |  | the Coyote *= coyote* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Coyote |  |  |  |  | friend *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **faint** | gerund | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hunger; at the smell of the fish | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at smell=Stimulus |
| 4 | **smell** |  | the fish |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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