Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 147

They were cut in a rude manner upon the inside of the walls, which were composed of a stone so extremely soft that it might be easily penetrated with a knife: a stone everywhere to be found near the Mississippi.

What happens: cut, compose, penetrate, find · To what, where: hieroglyphics, rude manner, walls, pebble, Mississippi

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: 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 manner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 manner	det
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 manner	amod
7	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 inside	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 inside	det
10	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 walls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 inside	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 composed	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 composed	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 composed	aux:pass
17	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 walls	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 stone	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stone	det
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 composed	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 soft	advmod
22	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	23 soft	advmod
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 composed	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 penetrated	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 penetrated	nsubj:pass
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 penetrated	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 penetrated	aux:pass
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	29 penetrated	advmod
29	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 soft	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 knife	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 knife	det
32	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 penetrated	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 stone	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 stone	det
35	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
36	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 cut	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	39 found	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 found	aux:pass
39	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cut	advcl
40	near	near	ADP	_	42 Mississippi	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Mississippi	det
42	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 found	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	past · passive	hieroglyphics = hieroglyphic	a rude manner	upon the inside of the walls; a stone obl; everywhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	compose	past · passive	the walls		of a stone; soft property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	penetrate	might · passive	pebble		with a knife; easily property	vn poke-19 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with knife=Instrument
4	find	to-infinitive · passive		the Mississippi		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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 147

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 147