--- title: As the door opened to admit stalwart Francisco to the big flickering… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: As the door opened to admit stalwart Francisco to the big flickering room where we were all sitting in silence, the long, shrill wail of a Coyote, away up on the Accursed Hill, blew in after him on the boisterous March wind. Who acts: we, Coyote. 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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 (we, Coyote), 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:pg77804:34:4 # text = As the door opened to admit stalwart Francisco to the big flickering room where we were all sitting in silence, the long, shrill wail of a Coyote, away up on the Accursed Hill, blew in after him on the boisterous March wind. 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 admit admit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 stalwart stalwart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 Francisco Francisco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 flickering flickering NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 all all ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 shrill shrill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 wail wail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Coyote Coyote PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 32 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Accursed accurs VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 Hill Hill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 in in ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 after after ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 boisterous boisterous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nmod:unmarked _ _ 46 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | | | | | | as the door | tree rules | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | stalwart | the big flickering room | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stalwart=Topic to room=Recipient | | 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | we | | | silence | | the long shrill wail of a Coyote *conj*; all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | | 4 | **accurs** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **blow in** | past | | | | the boisterous wind March | after Coyote | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **wail** | | a Coyote | | | | | | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/5/) - ↑ back to [Doctor Field-mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/34/)