---
title: There on the ice the Coyote had to stay until a thaw liberated him,… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There on the ice the Coyote had to stay until a thaw liberated him, and when he got home he was very wet and cold and half starved. Who acts: Coyote, thaw, half. 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]
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/53/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Coyote and the Bear\[17\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/) / 53

# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Bear\[17\], sentence 53

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There on the ice the Coyote had to stay until a thaw liberated him, and when he got home he was very wet and cold and half starved.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Coyote, thaw, half · **What happens:** have, stay, liberate, get, be, starve · **To what, where:** ice, Coyote

<!-- .vabout -->
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, thaw, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:7:53
# text = There on the ice the Coyote had to stay until a thaw liberated him, and when he got home he was very wet and cold and half starved.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thaw	thaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	nsubj	_	_
29	starved	starve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Coyote |  |  | the ice; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | the Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **liberate** | past | a thaw | Coyote |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | past | Coyote |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | Coyote |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **starve** | past | half |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/52/)
- next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/54/)
- ↑ back to [The Coyote and the Bear\[17\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/7/)