Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 35

So, to tell you the truth, I have resolved to take up my abode here; and I entreat you, mother, brother, and friend, to follow my example."

Who acts: I, my · What happens: tell, resolve, take up, entreat, follow, exemplify · To what, where: truth, you, abode, example · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resolved	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 resolved	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 resolved	aux
11	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tell	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 resolved	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 take	compound:prt
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 abode	nmod:poss
16	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 take	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 entreat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 entreat	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 entreat	nsubj
21	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 entreat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mother	punct
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entreat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brother	punct
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mother	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 friend	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 friend	cc
29	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mother	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 follow	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 follow	mark
32	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 entreat	conj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 example	nmod:poss
34	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 follow	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic
2	resolve	present · perfect	I					tree rules
3	take up	to-infinitive	I not said here	my abode		here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme
4	entreat	infinitive	I		you		mother and brother and friend obl	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	follow	to-infinitive	I not said here	my example				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme
6	exemplify		my					nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: «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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