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title: “_Hin-no-kah-kée-ma_” (Good evening), said the Coyote; “how do you d… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “_Hin-no-kah-kée-ma_” (Good evening), said the Coyote; “how do you do to-day, friend Hloo-rée-deh?” Who acts: kah, Hin, you, friend. 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 
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Coyote and the Woodpecker, sentence 4

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“\_Hin-no-kah-kée-ma\_” (Good evening), said the Coyote; “how do you do to-day, friend Hloo-rée-deh?”

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**Who acts:** kah, Hin, you, friend · **What happens:** ma, say, do, deh · **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 (kah, Hin, you, friend), 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:pg77804:9:4
# text = “_Hin-no-kah-kée-ma_” (Good evening), said the Coyote; “how do you do to-day, friend Hloo-rée-deh?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Hin	hin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kah	kah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	kée	kée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	Hloo	Hloo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	rée	rée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	deh	deh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ma** *in a quote* |  | kah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Hin |  |  |  |  | the Coyote *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deh** *in a quote* |  | friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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