Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 139
Carver in his _Travels_, London, 1778, p. 63, et seq., describes this cave as follows: "It is a remarkable cave of an amazing depth.
Who acts: Carver, seq · What happens: describe, follow, be · To what, where: cave, remarkable cave
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 (Carver, seq), 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 | Carver | carver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 London | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 London | nmod:poss |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Travels | punct |
| 5 | Travels | Travel | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 London | compound |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Travels | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 London | punct |
| 8 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Carver | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 1778 | punct |
| 10 | 1778 | 1778 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Carver | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 63 | punct |
| 12 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 63 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 63 | 63 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Carver | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seq | punct |
| 15 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 16 seq | cc |
| 16 | seq | seq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carver | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carver | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carver | punct |
| 19 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 cave | det |
| 21 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 describes | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 follows | mark |
| 23 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 describes | advcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 cave | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 cave | punct |
| 26 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 cave | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 cave | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cave | det |
| 29 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cave | amod |
| 30 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 follows | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 depth | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 depth | det |
| 33 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 depth | amod |
| 34 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cave | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | Carver in Carver's Travels London et seq | this cave | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | Carver in Carver's Travels London et seq not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | seq | a remarkable cave | of a amazing depth | tree rules |
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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