Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 55
"Cadmus," said the voice again, "bid those five warriors sheathe their swords.
Who acts: Cadmus, five warriors · What happens: say, bid, sheathe · To what, where: voice, swords · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cadmus, five warriors), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cadmus | punct |
| 2 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cadmus | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cadmus | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bid | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bid | punct |
| 11 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 warriors | det |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 warriors | nummod |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sheathe | nsubj |
| 15 | sheathe | sheathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bid | ccomp |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 swords | nmod:poss |
| 17 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sheathe | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cadmus | the voice | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | |||
| 2 | bid in a quote | past | Cadmus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sheathe in a quote | present | that five warriors | parts's swords | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=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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