Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 89

Eurylochus and a few of the others were inclined to turn back.

What happens: incline, turn back · To what, where: Eurylochus

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: 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	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 inclined	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 few	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Eurylochus	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 others	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 few	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 inclined	aux:pass
9	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 turn	mark
11	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 inclined	xcomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 turn	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	incline	past · passive		Eurylochus					tree rules
2	turn back	to-infinitive							vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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