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title: But when he came to the door he found it so bristling with arrow-poi… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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,
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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

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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.

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**Who acts:** Tái, arrow points · **What happens:** come, find, bristle, try, enter, cut · **To what, where:** door, ladder · **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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:20:54
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	bristling	bristle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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