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title: This cave is only accessible by ascending a narrow, steep passage th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: This cave is only accessible by ascending a narrow, steep passage that lies near the brink of the river. Who acts: cave, narrow steep passage. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 3, sentence 148

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This cave is only accessible by ascending a narrow, steep passage that lies near the brink of the river.

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**Who acts:** cave, narrow steep passage · **What happens:** be, ascend, lie · **To what, where:** narrow steep passage, brink

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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 (cave, narrow steep passage), 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:pg8122:20:148
# text = This cave is only accessible by ascending a narrow, steep passage that lies near the brink of the river.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	accessible	accessible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this cave |  |  |  |  | accessible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ascend** | gerund | this cave *not said here* | a narrow steep passage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme passage=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lie** | present | a narrow steep passage |  |  | the brink of the river |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near brink=Location |

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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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