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title: While he pulled and howled, the Bear shouted with laughter, and roll… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: While he pulled and howled, the Bear shouted with laughter, and rolled on the ice and ha-ha’d till his sides were sore. Who acts: Coyote, Bear. 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 depende
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 51

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While he pulled and howled, the Bear shouted with laughter, and rolled on the ice and ha-ha’d till his sides were sore.

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**Who acts:** Coyote, Bear · **What happens:** pull, howl, shout, roll, be · **To what, where:** ice

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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 (Coyote, Bear), 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:pg77804:7:51
# text = While he pulled and howled, the Bear shouted with laughter, and rolled on the ice and ha-ha’d till his sides were sore.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | Coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **howl** | past | Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the Bear |  |  |  |  | with laughter | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  | the ice and ’d |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | till Coyote's sides | sore *property* | 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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