Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 64
But Ulysses lost no time in girding on his sword, and hanging his bow and quiver over his shoulders, and taking a spear in his right hand.
Who acts: Ulysses, time · What happens: lose, gird, hang, take · To what, where: sword, bow, shoulders, spear, right hand
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, time), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 lost | cc |
| 2 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 girding | mark |
| 7 | girding | gird | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sword | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girding | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hanging | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hanging | cc |
| 13 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hanging | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quiver | cc |
| 17 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bow | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 shoulders | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hanging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 taking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 taking | cc |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hanging | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 spear | det |
| 25 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hand | amod |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Ulysses | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gird | gerund | no time not said here | Ulysses's sword | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | Ulysses's bow and quiver | Ulysses's shoulders | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme over shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | a spear | Ulysses's right hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spear=Value in hand=Location |
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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