The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 43

It is well that you came to me for help, for that ladder is set with sharp arrow-heads and knives of flint, so that if you tried to go up it, it would cut your legs off.

Who acts: trouble, you · What happens: be, set, try, go up, cut off · To what, where: me, ladder, legs

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 came	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 help	case
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 set	mark
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 ladder	det
14	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 set	aux:pass
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 heads	case
18	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heads	amod
19	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heads	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 arrow	punct
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knives	cc
23	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heads	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 flint	case
25	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knives	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cut	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	39 cut	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 cut	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 tried	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tried	nsubj
31	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cut	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tried	xcomp
34	up	up	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cut	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 cut	aux
39	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	conj
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 legs	nmod:poss
41	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 cut	obj
42	off	off	ADP	_	39 cut	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	trouble		me	for help; you nsubj; come, well property	tree rules
2	set	present · passive		that ladder		with sharp arrow heads and knives of flint	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with head=Instrument
3	try a condition, not said to happen	past	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	go up not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	ladder			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent
5	cut off	would	trouble	your legs			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality

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.

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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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 43