Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 68
"As I am your king," answered Ulysses, "and wiser than any of you, it is therefore the more my duty to see what has befallen our comrades, and whether anything can yet be done to rescue them.
Who acts: Ulysses, soul · What happens: be, answer, see, befall, do, rescue · To what, where: duty, comrades, anything, kings · Speech: someone speaks here
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, soul), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 king | nmod:poss |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wiser | cc |
| 14 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 any | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 wiser | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 any | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 duty | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 duty | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 duty | cop |
| 22 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 26 duty | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 duty | det |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 duty | advmod |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 duty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 duty | acl |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 befallen | aux |
| 31 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | ccomp |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 33 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 befallen | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 done | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 done | cc |
| 36 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 41 done | mark |
| 37 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 done | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 done | aux |
| 39 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 41 done | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 done | aux:pass |
| 41 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 rescue | mark |
| 43 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 done | advcl |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 rescue | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Ulysses | as your king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Ulysses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | soul | my duty | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Ulysses not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | befall in a quote | present · perfect · passive | our comrades | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | can · passive | anything | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | rescue in a quote | to-infinitive | kings = king | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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