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title: It was bordered on each side with rocks and precipices, between whic… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was bordered on each side with rocks and precipices, between which the rumbling of the chariot wheels was reverberated with a noise like rolling thunder. Who acts: rocks, noise, chariot wheels. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its depen
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 103

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It was bordered on each side with rocks and precipices, between which the rumbling of the chariot wheels was reverberated with a noise like rolling thunder.

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**Who acts:** rocks, noise, chariot wheels · **What happens:** border, reverberate, roll, rumble · **To what, where:** road, side, rumbling, thunder

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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 (rocks, noise, chariot wheels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:20:103
# text = It was bordered on each side with rocks and precipices, between which the rumbling of the chariot wheels was reverberated with a noise like rolling thunder.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	precipices	precipice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	reverberated	reverberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **border** | past · passive | rocks and precipices | road |  | each side |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **reverberate** | past · passive |  | the rumbling of the chariot wheels |  |  |  | between rocks and precipices; with a noise | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund | a noise *not said here* | thunder |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Agent |
| 4 | **rumble** |  | the chariot wheels |  |  |  |  |  | nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** «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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