Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 103
It was bordered on each side with rocks and precipices, between which the rumbling of the chariot wheels was reverberated with a noise like rolling thunder.
Who acts: rocks, noise, chariot wheels · What happens: border, reverberate, roll, rumble · To what, where: road, side, rumbling, thunder
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks, noise, chariot wheels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bordered | aux:pass |
| 3 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bordered | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rocks | case |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bordered | obl:agent |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 precipices | cc |
| 10 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rocks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reverberated | punct |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 reverberated | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rumbling | det |
| 15 | rumbling | rumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reverberated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wheels | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wheels | det |
| 18 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wheels | compound |
| 19 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rumbling | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reverberated | aux:pass |
| 21 | reverberated | reverberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rocks | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 noise | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reverberated | obl |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 rolling | mark |
| 26 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 noise | acl |
| 27 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rolling | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | past · passive | rocks and precipices | road | each side | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | reverberate | past · passive | the rumbling of the chariot wheels | between rocks and precipices; with a noise | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | a noise not said here | thunder | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rumble | the chariot wheels | nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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