--- title: It is well that you came to me for help, for that ladder is set with… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77804:20:43 # text = 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. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 flint flint NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 27 so so SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 up up ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/20/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/20/44/) - ↑ back to [The Moqui\[72\] Boy and the Eagle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/20/)