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title: When they came to the house of the Woodpeckers and went in, all the… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the house of the Woodpeckers and went in, all the Coyotes kept lifting their arms often, to show the bright coals underneath. Who acts: Woodpecker, Coyotes. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 24

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When they came to the house of the Woodpeckers and went in, all the Coyotes kept lifting their arms often, to show the bright coals underneath.

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**Who acts:** Woodpecker, Coyotes · **What happens:** come, go in, keep, lift, show · **To what, where:** house, arms, bright coals

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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 Woodpecker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodpecker, Coyotes), 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:pg77804:9:24
# text = When they came to the house of the Woodpeckers and went in, all the Coyotes kept lifting their arms often, to show the bright coals underneath.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Woodpeckers	Woodpecker	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Woodpecker |  |  | the house of the Woodpeckers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go in** | past | Woodpecker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | all Coyotes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lift** | gerund | all Coyotes *not said here* | Woodpecker's arms |  |  |  | often *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | all Coyotes *not said here* | the bright coals |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coal=Recipient |

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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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