Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 4

This misfortune was entirely owing to the foolish curiosity of his shipmates, who, while Ulysses lay asleep, had untied some very bulky leathern bags, in which they supposed a valuable treasure to be concealed.

Who acts: misfortune, shipmates, bags · What happens: owe, lie, untie, suppose, conceal · To what, where: foolish curiosity, bulky leathern bags, valuable treasure

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misfortune, shipmates, bags), 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 misfortune	det
2	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 owing	aux
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 owing	advmod
5	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 curiosity	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 curiosity	det
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 curiosity	amod
9	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 shipmates	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shipmates	nmod:poss
12	shipmates	shipmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 curiosity	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lay	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 lay	mark
17	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shipmates	acl:relcl
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 untied	punct
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 untied	aux
22	untied	untie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 owing	parataxis
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 bags	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 bulky	advmod
25	bulky	bulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bags	amod
26	leathern	leathern	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bags	compound
27	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 untied	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 supposed	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 supposed	obl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 supposed	nsubj
32	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 untied	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 treasure	det
34	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 treasure	amod
35	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 supposed	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 concealed	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 concealed	aux:pass
38	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 treasure	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 owing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	owe	past · progressive	this misfortune		to the foolish curiosity of misfortune's shipmates goal; entirely property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to curiosity=Goal
2	lie	past	misfortune's shipmates		asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	untie	past · perfect		some bulky leathern bags		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
4	suppose	past	bags = bag	a valuable treasure		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent treasure=Attribute
5	conceal	to-infinitive · passive	bags = bag not said here	a valuable treasure not said here		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/4/