Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 15
This Delphi was supposed to be the very midmost spot of the whole world.
What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: Delphi, midmost spot
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Delphi | det |
| 2 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 spot | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 spot | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 midmost | advmod |
| 9 | midmost | midmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spot | amod |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supposed | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spot | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | this Delphi | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the midmost spot | of the whole world | tree rules |
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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