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title: But as he caught the hoop when it came rolling, he was no longer Nah… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he caught the hoop when it came rolling, he was no longer Nah-chu-rú-chu the brave hunter, but a poor Coyote with great tears rolling down his nose! Who acts: COYOTE, rú, great tears. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 38

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But as he caught the hoop when it came rolling, he was no longer Nah-chu-rú-chu the brave hunter, but a poor Coyote with great tears rolling down his nose!

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**Who acts:** COYOTE, rú, great tears · **What happens:** catch, come, roll, be, roll down · **To what, where:** hoop, chu rú, nose

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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 First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (COYOTE, rú, great tears), 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:pg77804:8:39
# text = But as he caught the hoop when it came rolling, he was no longer Nah-chu-rú-chu the brave hunter, but a poor Coyote with great tears rolling down his nose!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
16	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | COYOTE | the hoop |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | rú |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund | rú *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | COYOTE | chu rú but a poor Coyote with great tears |  |  |  | a poor Coyote with great tears *conj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **roll down** | gerund | great tears *not said here* | COYOTE's nose |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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