The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 52

Its sides and rungs were bristling with keen arrow-heads, so that no living thing could climb it; but when Tái-oh chewed some of the magic herb and spat upon the ladder, all the sharp points fell off, and it was so smooth that he climbed it without a single scratch.

Who acts: sides, living thing, sharp points, thing, Tái · What happens: bristle, climb, chew, fall off, be · To what, where: ladder, Tái

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 (sides, living thing, sharp points, thing), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sides	nmod:poss
2	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bristling	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rungs	cc
4	rungs	rung	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sides	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bristling	aux
6	bristling	bristle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 heads	case
8	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heads	amod
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heads	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 arrow	punct
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bristling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 climb	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 climb	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 thing	det
16	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thing	compound
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 climb	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 climb	aux
19	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bristling	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 climb	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 chewed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 chewed	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 chewed	mark
24	Tái	Tái	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 chewed	nsubj:pass
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Tái	punct
26	oh	oh	INTJ	_	27 chewed	discourse
27	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bristling	parataxis
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 chewed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 herb	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 herb	det
31	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 herb	amod
32	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 some	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spat	cc
34	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 herb	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 ladder	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ladder	det
37	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 herb	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 points	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 points	det
41	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 points	amod
42	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chewed	parataxis
44	off	off	ADP	_	43 fell	compound:prt
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 smooth	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 smooth	cc
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 smooth	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 smooth	cop
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 smooth	advmod
50	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fell	conj
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 climbed	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 climbed	nsubj
53	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 smooth	advcl
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 climbed	obj
55	without	without	ADP	_	58 scratch	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 scratch	det
57	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 scratch	amod
58	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 climbed	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bristling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bristle	past · progressive	ladder's sides and rungs		with keen arrow heads	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with head=Theme
2	climb	could	no living thing	ladder		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	chew	participle · passive		Tái		tree rules
4	fall off	past	all sharp points			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	past	thing		smooth property	tree rules
6	climb	past	Tái	ladder	without a single scratch	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme

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 52

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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 52