Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7, sentence 127
Up-towering, in rugged repose, to a dizzy height over the waters.
What happens: tower · To what, where: rugged repose
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 towering | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 3 | towering | tower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 repose | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 repose | case |
| 6 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 repose | amod |
| 7 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 towering | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 height | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 height | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 height | det |
| 11 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 height | amod |
| 12 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 towering | obl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 height | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 towering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | gerund | rugged repose | to a dizzy height over the waters | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location repose=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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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