Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 141
The entrance into it is about ten feet wide, the height of it five feet, the arch within is near fifteen feet high and about thirty feet broad.
Who acts: entrance · What happens: be · To what, where: fifteen feet, thirty feet
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 (entrance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 entrance | det |
| 2 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entrance | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wide | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 ten | advmod |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 height | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 height | det |
| 12 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wide | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 height | nmod |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 feet | nummod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 height | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 arch | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arch | det |
| 19 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 height | conj |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 high | mark |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 high | cop |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 feet | nummod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 high | obl |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wide | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 broad | cc |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 thirty | advmod |
| 28 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 feet | nummod |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 broad | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 high | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the entrance into teebe | ten feet obl:unmarked; the height of teebe and five feet and the arch conj; wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the entrance into teebe not said here | fifteen feet | high property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | the entrance into teebe not said here | thirty feet | 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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