Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 64

Indeed, it is most probable that Ceres was then a thousand miles off, making the corn grow in some far distant country.

Who acts: voice, Ceres · What happens: be, make, grow · To what, where: corn, distant country

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 (voice, Ceres), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 probable	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 probable	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 probable	cop
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 probable	advmod
6	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grow	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 off	mark
8	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 off	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 off	cop
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 off	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 miles	nummod
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 off	obl:unmarked
14	off	off	ADV	_	19 grow	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 off	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corn	det
18	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obj
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 country	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 country	det
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 distant	advmod
23	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 country	amod
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grow	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	voice				indeed, probable property	tree rules
2	is	past	Ceres			then	thousand miles obl:unmarked; off property	tree rules
3	make	gerund	Ceres not said here	the corn				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product
4	grow	present			some distant country			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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: «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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