Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 41

From what is related of them, I reckon that their favorite diet was pork, and that they had lived upon it until a good part of their physical substance was swine's flesh, and their tempers and dispositions were very much akin to the hog.

Who acts: I, favorite diet, comrades, good part, tempers · What happens: be, reckon, live, temper · To what, where: pork, diet, much akin

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 (I, favorite diet, comrades, good part), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 related	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 related	cop
4	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 related	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reckon	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 reckon	nsubj
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 related	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 pork	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 diet	nmod:poss
12	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 diet	amod
13	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pork	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pork	cop
15	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lived	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 lived	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lived	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lived	aux
21	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 related	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lived	obl
24	until	until	ADP	_	35 flesh	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 part	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 part	amod
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flesh	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 substance	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 substance	nmod:poss
30	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 substance	amod
31	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 flesh	cop
33	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flesh	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 swine	case
35	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 akin	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 akin	cc
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tempers	nmod:poss
39	tempers	temper	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 akin	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 dispositions	cc
41	dispositions	disposition	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 tempers	conj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 akin	cop
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 much	advmod
44	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 akin	amod
45	akin	akin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 related	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 hog	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 hog	det
48	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 akin	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					of comrades = comrade; related property	tree rules
2	reckon	present	I					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	comrades's favorite diet	pork				tree rules
4	live	past · perfect	comrades = comrade		diet			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
5	is	past	a good part of comrades's physical substance			until swine's flesh		tree rules
6	is a	past	comrades's tempers and dispositions	much akin			to the hog	tree rules
7	temper		comrades = comrade					nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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