The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 54

But when he came to the door he found it so bristling with arrow-points that whoever might try to enter would be cut to pieces.

Who acts: Tái, arrow points · What happens: come, find, bristle, try, enter, cut · To what, where: door, ladder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tái, arrow points), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bristling	advmod
12	bristling	bristle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 cut	nsubj:pass
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 points	case
14	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 points	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 arrow	punct
16	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bristling	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 try	nsubj
18	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 try	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 try	aux
20	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 points	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 enter	mark
22	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	xcomp
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 cut	aux:pass
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 found	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cut	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Tái		the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	find	past	Tái	ladder			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	bristle	gerund				with arrow points	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with point=Theme
4	try	might	arrow points			whoever nsubj	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	arrow points not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cut	would · passive				to pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Moqui[72] Boy and the Eagle, sentence 54