Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 145

I could hear that it fell into the water, and notwithstanding it was of so small a size, it caused an astonishing and horrible noise that reverberated through all those gloomy regions.

Who acts: I, pebble, horrible noise · What happens: hear, fall, notwithstand, be, cause, reverberate · To what, where: water, astonishing, gloomy regions

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 (I, pebble, horrible noise), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fell	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 notwithstanding	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 notwithstanding	cc
12	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 small	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 small	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 small	case
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 small	advmod
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 notwithstanding	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 size	det
19	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 small	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caused	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 caused	nsubj
22	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 small	parataxis
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 astonishing	det
24	astonishing	astonishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 caused	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 noise	cc
26	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 noise	amod
27	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 astonishing	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 reverberated	nsubj
29	reverberated	reverberate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 noise	acl:relcl
30	through	through	ADP	_	34 regions	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 regions	det:predet
32	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 regions	det
33	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 regions	amod
34	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reverberated	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	I				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	past	pebble			into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
3	notwithstand	gerund	I not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	pebble			a size nsubj; small property	tree rules
5	cause	past	pebble	a astonishing and horrible noise			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition astonishing=Patient
6	reverberate	past	horrible noise		all gloomy regions		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through region=Location

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 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 145