Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 48
"Now," said he, "when I was on the cliff, yesterday, I discovered that this island is inhabited.
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: say, be, discover, inhabit · To what, where: cliff, island · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ulysses), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cliff | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cliff | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 cliff | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 cliff | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cliff | cop |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cliff | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cliff | det |
| 14 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yesterday | punct |
| 16 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cliff | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 discovered | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 discovered | nsubj |
| 19 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 inhabited | mark |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 island | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 24 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 discovered | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ulysses | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Ulysses | the cliff and yesterday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover in a quote | past | Ulysses | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | inhabit in a quote | present · passive | this island | 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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