Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 5
When hot, they are rolled within, and the door being closed, steam is made by pouring water on them.
What happens: roll, close, make, pour · To what, where: stones, door, steam, water
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 hot | advmod |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rolled | csubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hot | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rolled | aux:pass |
| 6 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 rolled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 closed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 closed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 closed | aux:pass |
| 13 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rolled | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 closed | conj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 pouring | mark |
| 19 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 made | advcl |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pouring | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pouring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present · passive | stones = stone | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 2 | close | gerund · passive | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | steam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | pour | gerund | water | on stones = stone | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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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