Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 29
McKay's Mountain on the main-land, a perpendicular rock more than a thousand feet high, up-heaved by the throes of some vast volcano, and numerous other bold and precipitous head lands, and rock-built islands, around which roll the sapphire-blue waters of the fathomless bay, present some of the most magnificent views to be found on either continent.]
Who acts: main land · What happens: heave, build, roll, present, find · To what, where: perpendicular rock, blue waters, some, continent, main land
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (main land), 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 | McKay | McKay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 land | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 McKay | case |
| 3 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 land | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 land | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 main | punct |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rock | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 11 | perpendicular | perpendicular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rock | amod |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 land | appos |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 16 thousand | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thousand | det |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 feet | nummod |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 high | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rock | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heaved | punct |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 heaved | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 22 | heaved | heave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rock | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 throes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 throes | det |
| 25 | throes | throe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 heaved | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 volcano | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 volcano | det |
| 28 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 volcano | amod |
| 29 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throes | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lands | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lands | cc |
| 32 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lands | amod |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lands | amod |
| 34 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lands | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 precipitous | cc |
| 36 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bold | conj |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lands | compound |
| 38 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 land | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 islands | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 islands | cc |
| 41 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 built | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 rock | punct |
| 43 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 islands | amod |
| 44 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 land | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 roll | punct |
| 46 | around | around | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 roll | nsubj |
| 48 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 land | parataxis |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 waters | det |
| 50 | sapphire | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 blue | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 sapphire | punct |
| 52 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 waters | amod |
| 53 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 roll | obj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 bay | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 bay | det |
| 56 | fathomless | fathomless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 bay | amod |
| 57 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 waters | nmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 present | punct |
| 59 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 roll | conj |
| 60 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 59 present | obj |
| 61 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 views | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 views | det |
| 63 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 64 magnificent | advmod |
| 64 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 views | amod |
| 65 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 some | nmod |
| 66 | to | to | PART | _ | 68 found | mark |
| 67 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 68 found | aux:pass |
| 68 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 65 views | acl |
| 69 | on | on | ADP | _ | 71 continent | case |
| 70 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 71 continent | det |
| 71 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 found | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 land | punct |
| 73 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | participle | a perpendicular rock not said here | by the throes of some vast volcano | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | rock compound | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | roll | present | McKay's main land Mountain built islands and numerous other bold head lands | the blue waters of the fathomless bay | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Agent | ||||
| 4 | present | infinitive | McKay's main land Mountain built islands and numerous other bold head lands not said here | some of the magnificent views | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive · passive | McKay's main land Mountain built islands and numerous other bold head lands not said here | either continent | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/22/29/