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title: Then the false friend went away, laughing, to his village; and the p… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the false friend went away, laughing, to his village; and the poor Coyote wandered aimlessly, weeping to think that he had been betrayed by the one he had loved and trusted as a brother. Who acts: false friend, poor Coyote, one, COYOTE. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pue
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 43

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Then the false friend went away, laughing, to his village; and the poor Coyote wandered aimlessly, weeping to think that he had been betrayed by the one he had loved and trusted as a brother.

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**Who acts:** false friend, poor Coyote, one, COYOTE · **What happens:** go away, laugh, wander, weep, think, betray · **To what, where:** village, COYOTE, one · **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 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 (false friend, poor Coyote, one, COYOTE), 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:pg77804:8:44
# text = Then the false friend went away, laughing, to his village; and the poor Coyote wandered aimlessly, weeping to think that he had been betrayed by the one he had loved and trusted as a brother.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | the false friend |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | the false friend *not said here* |  | friend's village |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to village=Recipient |
| 3 | **wander** | past | the poor Coyote |  |  |  |  | aimlessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **weep** | gerund | the poor Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the poor Coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **betray** | past · perfect · passive | the one | COYOTE |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **love** | past · perfect | COYOTE | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 8 | **trust** | participle | COYOTE *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a brother *obl:agent* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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