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title: “Now, friend Coyote, sit down and let your tail hang in the water, a… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, friend Coyote, sit down and let your tail hang in the water, and very soon you will feel a nibble. Who acts: you, tail. 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 p
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 38

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“Now, friend Coyote, sit down and let your tail hang in the water, and very soon you will feel a nibble.

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**Who acts:** you, tail · **What happens:** sit down, let, hang, feel · **To what, where:** friend Coyote, tail, water, nibble

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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, tail), 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:pg77804:7:38
# text = “Now, friend Coyote, sit down and let your tail hang in the water, and very soon you will feel a nibble.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nibble	nibble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | friend Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your tail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** *in a quote* | infinitive | your tail *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | future | you | a nibble |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nibble=Theme |

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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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