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title: The entrance into it is about ten feet wide, the height of it five f… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The entrance into it is about ten feet wide, the height of it five feet, the arch within is near fifteen feet high and about thirty feet broad. Who acts: entrance. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 141

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The entrance into it is about ten feet wide, the height of it five feet, the arch within is near fifteen feet high and about thirty feet broad.

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**Who acts:** entrance · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fifteen feet, thirty feet

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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 (entrance), 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:pg8122:20:141
# text = The entrance into it is about ten feet wide, the height of it five feet, the arch within is near fifteen feet high and about thirty feet broad.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
25	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the entrance into teebe |  |  |  |  | ten feet *obl:unmarked*; the height of teebe and five feet and the arch *conj*; wide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the entrance into teebe *not said here* |  |  | fifteen feet |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the entrance into teebe *not said here* | thirty feet |  |  |  |  | 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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