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title: Carver in his _Travels_, London, 1778, p. 63, et seq., describes thi… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Carver in his _Travels_, London, 1778, p. 63, et seq., describes this cave as follows: "It is a remarkable cave of an amazing depth. Who acts: Carver, seq. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 139

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Carver in his \_Travels\_, London, 1778, p. 63, et seq., describes this cave as follows: "It is a remarkable cave of an amazing depth.

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**Who acts:** Carver, seq · **What happens:** describe, follow, be · **To what, where:** cave, remarkable cave

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carver, seq), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:20:139
# text = Carver in his _Travels_, London, 1778, p. 63, et seq., describes this cave as follows: "It is a remarkable cave of an amazing depth.
1	Carver	carver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Travels	Travel	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	1778	1778	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | Carver in Carver's Travels London et seq | this cave |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cave=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | Carver in Carver's Travels London et seq *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | seq | a remarkable cave |  |  |  | of a amazing depth | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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