Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 148
This cave is only accessible by ascending a narrow, steep passage that lies near the brink of the river.
Who acts: cave, narrow steep passage · What happens: be, ascend, lie · To what, where: narrow steep passage, brink
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 (cave, narrow steep passage), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cave | det |
| 2 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accessible | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 accessible | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 accessible | advmod |
| 5 | accessible | accessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 ascending | mark |
| 7 | ascending | ascend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 accessible | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 passage | det |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 passage | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 narrow | punct |
| 11 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 passage | amod |
| 12 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ascending | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 passage | acl:relcl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 brink | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brink | det |
| 17 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brink | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accessible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this cave | accessible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ascend | gerund | this cave not said here | a narrow steep passage | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme passage=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | a narrow steep passage | the brink of the river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near brink=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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