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title: Next morning when the grandson went out very early to let the goats… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning when the grandson went out very early to let the goats from the corral, he saw a Coyote run out from among the goats. Who acts: grandson, Coyote. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes,
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 50

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Next morning when the grandson went out very early to let the goats from the corral, he saw a Coyote run out from among the goats.

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**Who acts:** grandson, Coyote · **What happens:** go out, let, see, run out · **To what, where:** goats, corral · **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 (grandson, 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:pg77804:8:51
# text = Next morning when the grandson went out very early to let the goats from the corral, he saw a Coyote run out from among the goats.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	corral	corral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the grandson |  |  |  |  | early, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | the grandson *not said here* | the goats |  | the corral |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | grandson |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run out** | present | a Coyote |  |  |  |  | from the goats | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from goat=Trajectory |

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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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