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title: “Be patient, my daughter,” said the Coyote-father, severely, “and do… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Be patient, my daughter,” said the Coyote-father, severely, “and do not cry about little things.” Who acts: you, Coyote father. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, with its dependency tree and 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 28

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“Be patient, my daughter,” said the Coyote-father, severely, “and do not cry about little things.”

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**Who acts:** you, Coyote father · **What happens:** be, say, not cry · **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 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 (you, Coyote father), 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:pg77804:9:28
# text = “Be patient, my daughter,” said the Coyote-father, severely, “and do not cry about little things.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my daughter *conj*; patient, severely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Coyote father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about little things | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |

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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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