Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 48

Each man smote down his brother, and was himself smitten down before he had time to exult in his victory.

Who acts: man · What happens: smite down, have, exult · To what, where: brother, man, victory

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smote	nsubj
3	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 smote	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smote	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smitten	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smitten	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smitten	aux:pass
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 smitten	nsubj
11	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smote	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 smitten	compound:prt
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smitten	advcl
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 exult	mark
18	exult	exult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 victory	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 victory	nmod:poss
21	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exult	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	smite down	past	each man	man's brother			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer
2	smite down	past · passive		man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	have	past	man			time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	exult	to-infinitive	man not said here		man's victory		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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