More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 60

And in a voyage to Portugal Two of his sons did die; And to conclude, himself was brought To want and misery: He pawned and mortgaged all his land Ere seven years came about.

Who acts: conscience · What happens: die, conclude, bring, want, pawn, mortgage · To what, where: conscience, misery, land

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conscience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 voyage	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 voyage	det
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Portugal	case
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 voyage	nmod
7	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Portugal	flat
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sons	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 die	obl
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
12	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 conclude	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 conclude	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 conclude	mark
16	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 die	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 brought	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux:pass
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 die	parataxis
21	To	to	PART	_	22 want	mark
22	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 brought	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 misery	cc
24	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 want	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 pawned	punct
26	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pawned	nsubj
27	pawned	pawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 die	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mortgaged	cc
29	mortgaged	mortgage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pawned	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 land	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 land	nmod:poss
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mortgaged	obj
33	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mortgaged	obj
34	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 came	obl:unmarked
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mortgaged	conj
37	about	about	ADV	_	36 came	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · do-support				of Portugal's sons; in a voyage to Portugal	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in voyage=Attribute
2	conclude	to-infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	bring	past · passive		conscience			tree rules
4	want	to-infinitive		misery			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot misery=Theme
5	pawn	past	conscience				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
6	mortgage	past	conscience not said here	conscience's land			tree rules
7	come about	past	conscience not said here		year	about property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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