Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 68
In this manner, it was decided that Ulysses and his twenty-two men were to remain at the seaside until the other party should have found out what sort of treatment they might expect at the mysterious palace.
Who acts: Ulysses, parties · What happens: decide, remain, find out, expect, sort · To what, where: word, manner, seaside, other party, mysterious palace, treatment · 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, parties), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 manner | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 decided | aux:pass |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 remain | mark |
| 9 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 remain | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 men | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 two | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 twenty | punct |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 men | nummod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Ulysses | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 remain | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remain | mark |
| 18 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 seaside | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seaside | det |
| 21 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remain | obl |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 party | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 party | amod |
| 25 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 remain | advcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 found | compound:prt |
| 30 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 31 sort | det |
| 31 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 treatment | case |
| 33 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sort | nmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 expect | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 expect | aux |
| 36 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | ccomp |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 39 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 palace | amod |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 expect | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · passive | word | this manner | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | past | Ulysses and Ulysses's two men | the seaside | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at seaside=Location | ||||
| 3 | find out | should · perfect · passive | the other party | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | expect | might | parties = party | the mysterious palace | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sort | treatment | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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