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title: McKay's Mountain on the main-land, a perpendicular rock more than a… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5, sentence 29

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McKay's Mountain on the main-land, a perpendicular rock more than a thousand feet high, up-heaved by the throes of some vast volcano, and numerous other bold and precipitous head lands, and rock-built islands, around which roll the sapphire-blue waters of the fathomless bay, present some of the most magnificent views to be found on either continent.\]

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**Who acts:** main land · **What happens:** heave, build, roll, present, find · **To what, where:** perpendicular rock, blue waters, some, continent, main land

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (main land), 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:pg8122:22:29
# text = McKay's Mountain on the main-land, a perpendicular rock more than a thousand feet high, up-heaved by the throes of some vast volcano, and numerous other bold and precipitous head lands, and rock-built islands, around which roll the sapphire-blue waters of the fathomless bay, present some of the most magnificent views to be found on either continent.]
1	McKay	McKay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	perpendicular	perpendicular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	heaved	heave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	throes	throe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
34	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	_
44	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	around	around	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	sapphire	sapphire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	fathomless	fathomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
60	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	59	obj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
63	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	64	advmod	_	_
64	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	68	mark	_	_
67	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	68	aux:pass	_	_
68	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	65	acl	_	_
69	on	on	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	71	det	_	_
71	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heave** | participle |  | a perpendicular rock *not said here* |  |  |  | by the throes of some vast volcano | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rock *compound* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **roll** | present | McKay's main land  Mountain  built islands and numerous other bold head lands | the blue waters of the fathomless bay |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Agent |
| 4 | **present** | infinitive | McKay's main land  Mountain  built islands and numerous other bold head lands *not said here* | some of the magnificent views |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | McKay's main land  Mountain  built islands and numerous other bold head lands *not said here* |  |  | either continent |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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