Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 62

Being neither my son, nor the brother of our lost Europa, thou hast shown thyself truer to me and her than Phoenix and Cilix did, whom we have left behind us.

Who acts: thou, me · What happens: be, lose, show, do, leave · To what, where: son, thyself · 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 (thou, me), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 son	cop
2	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 son	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brother	punct
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 brother	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brother	det
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Europa	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Europa	nmod:poss
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Europa	amod
12	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brother	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shown	punct
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 shown	nsubj
15	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shown	aux
16	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 son	acl:relcl
17	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	16 shown	obj
18	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 shown	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Phoenix	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Phoenix	nmod:poss
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 Phoenix	case
24	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 me	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Cilix	cc
26	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Phoenix	conj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shown	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 left	nsubj:pass
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 left	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 son	acl
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 left	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		my son	neither property	tree rules
2	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	present · perfect	thou	thyself	true property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thyself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	past	me			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	leave	present · perfect · passive		my son	behind us	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind we=Location

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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