Legends of the Northwest, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, sentence 18
By his magic, the giant that lies on the mountain was turned to stone.
Who acts: giant, magic · What happens: lie, turn · To what, where: mountain, giant, stone
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Footnotes to the Sea-gull:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, magic), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 magic | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 magic | nmod:poss |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 magic | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 giant | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | aux:pass |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the giant | the mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | Ka's magic | the giant | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
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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