Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 107

It is a curious fact that the "sacred stone" of the Mohammedans, in the Kaaba at Mecca, is a meteoric stone, and obtains its sacred character from the fact that it fell from heaven.

Who acts: meteor · What happens: be, obtain, fall · To what, where: curious fact, meteoric stone, sacred character, fact, heaven

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meteor), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fact	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fact	det
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fact	amod
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stone	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 stone	punct
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stone	amod
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fact	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 stone	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Mohammedans	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mohammedans	det
14	Mohammedans	Mohammedan	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 stone	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Kaaba	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Kaaba	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Kaaba	det
18	Kaaba	Kaaba	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mohammedans	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Mecca	case
20	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Kaaba	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stone	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 stone	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stone	det
24	meteoric	meteoric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stone	amod
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fact	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 obtains	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 obtains	cc
28	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	parataxis
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 character	nmod:poss
30	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 character	amod
31	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obtains	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 fact	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fact	det
34	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obtains	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 fell	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fell	nsubj
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fact	acl
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 heaven	case
39	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	meteor	a curious fact and a meteoric stone		the sacred stone of the Mohammedans and the Kaaba at Mecca acl	tree rules
2	is a	present	meteor not said here	a meteoric stone			tree rules
3	obtain	present		meteor's sacred character	the fact		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent character=Theme from fact=Source
4	fall	past	meteor	the fact not said here	heaven		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient fact=Extent from heaven=Initial_State

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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 107