Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 49

There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, these strangers built huts for themselves, and were soon joined by a multitude of new settlers, who quickly formed a city.

Who acts: abundance, multitude · What happens: be, build, join, form · To what, where: abundance, huts, city

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 (abundance, multitude), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 abundance	expl
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 abundance	cop
3	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 built	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	unoccupied	unoccupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ground	amod
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 abundance	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 neighborhood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neighborhood	det
9	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ground	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strangers	punct
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 strangers	det
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 built	nsubj
13	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 built	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 built	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 joined	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 joined	cc
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 joined	aux:pass
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 joined	advmod
21	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 built	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 multitude	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 multitude	det
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 joined	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 settlers	case
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 settlers	amod
27	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 multitude	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 formed	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 formed	nsubj
30	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	31 formed	advmod
31	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 multitude	acl:relcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 city	det
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 formed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		abundance	there	of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood	tree rules
2	build	past	abundance	huts		for strangers = stranger	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hut=Material for themselves=Beneficiary
3	join	past · passive	a multitude of new settlers			soon property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	form	past	a multitude of new settlers	a city		quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location city=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: «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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