Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 71
For my part, I am answerable for the fate of these poor mariners, who have stood by my side in battle, and been so often drenched to the skin, along with me, by the same tempestuous surges.
Who acts: I, poor mariners, same tempestuous surges · What happens: be, stand, drench, fate · To what, where: battle, poor mariners
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 (I, poor mariners, same tempestuous surges), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 part | nmod:poss |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answerable | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 part | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 answerable | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answerable | cop |
| 7 | answerable | answerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fate | det |
| 10 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answerable | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mariners | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 mariners | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mariners | amod |
| 14 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stood | aux |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 mariners | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 battle | case |
| 23 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drenched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drenched | cc |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 drenched | aux:pass |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 drenched | advmod |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 drenched | advmod |
| 29 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 answerable | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 skin | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 skin | det |
| 32 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drenched | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 me | punct |
| 34 | along | along | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 drenched | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 surges | punct |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 surges | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 surges | det |
| 40 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 surges | amod |
| 41 | tempestuous | tempestuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 surges | amod |
| 42 | surges | surge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 drenched | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answerable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for my part; for the fate of this poor mariners; answerable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | present · perfect | this poor mariners | battle | by my side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||
| 3 | drench | participle · passive | the same tempestuous surges | to the skin; along me; often property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fate | this poor mariners | nom fate «event 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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