Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 60

My proposal is, therefore, that we divide ourselves into two equal parties, and ascertain, by drawing lots, which of the two shall go to the palace, and beg for food and assistance.

Who acts: proposal, we, lots, My · What happens: be, divide, ascertain, draw, go, propose · To what, where: ourselves, two equal parties, lots, palace

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 (proposal, we, lots, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 proposal	nmod:poss
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 is	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 divide	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 divide	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 divide	nsubj
9	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	parataxis
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 divide	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 parties	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 parties	nummod
13	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parties	amod
14	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 divide	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ascertain	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ascertain	cc
17	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 divide	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drawing	punct
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 drawing	mark
20	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ascertain	advcl
21	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drawing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 go	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 two	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 two	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 go	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lots	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palace	det
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beg	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 beg	cc
34	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drawing	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 food	case
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beg	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 assistance	cc
38	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 food	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	My proposal			therefore property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	divide	present	we	ourselves	two equal parties		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme
3	ascertain	infinitive	we not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	draw	gerund	we not said here	lots			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
5	go	shall	lots		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
6	propose		My				nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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