Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 62

If not, and if the inhabitants prove as inhospitable as Polyphemus, or the Laestrygons, then there will but half of us perish, and the remainder may set sail and escape."

Who acts: inhabitants, half, remainder · What happens: prove, perish, set, escape · To what, where: Laestrygons, sail

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 (inhabitants, half, remainder), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	2 not	mark
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 prove	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 prove	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prove	cc
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 prove	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inhabitants	det
7	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 prove	nsubj
8	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 inhospitable	advmod
10	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prove	xcomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 Polyphemus	case
12	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 inhospitable	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Laestrygons	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 Laestrygons	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Laestrygons	det
16	Laestrygons	Laestrygon	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 prove	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 perish	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 perish	advmod
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 perish	expl
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 perish	aux
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 perish	cc
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 perish	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 us	case
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 half	nmod
25	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 remainder	det
29	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 set	aux
31	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 prove	parataxis
32	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 escape	cc
34	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 set	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prove	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	the inhabitants	the Laestrygons			inhospitable property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	perish	future	half of us		there	then		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	set	may	the remainder	sail				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result
4	escape	infinitive	the remainder not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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