Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 73

The inhabitants had made him king, not for the sake of any royal blood (for none was in his veins), but because Thasus was an upright, true-hearted, and courageous man, and therefore fit to rule.

Who acts: none, Thasus · What happens: make, be, fit, rule · To what, where: inhabitants, upright

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 (none, Thasus), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inhabitants	det
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sake	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sake	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 sake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sake	det
11	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 blood	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 blood	det
14	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blood	amod
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sake	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 veins	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 veins	case
18	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 veins	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 veins	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 veins	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 veins	nmod:poss
22	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blood	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 veins	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hearted	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 hearted	cc
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 upright	mark
27	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 upright	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 upright	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 upright	det
30	upright	upright	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hearted	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 upright	punct
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hearted	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 true	punct
34	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 man	cc
37	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hearted	vocative
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fit	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fit	cc
41	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	42 fit	advmod
42	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 rule	mark
44	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 fit	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		the inhabitants	for the sake of any royal blood	tree rules
2	is	past	none		for city's veins	tree rules
3	is a	past	Thasus	a upright		tree rules
4	fit	present			therefore property	tree rules
5	rule	to-infinitive				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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