Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 72
I will either bring them back with me, or perish."
Who acts: I · What happens: bring back, perish · To what, where: 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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 4 bring | cc:preconj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perish | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 perish | cc |
| 11 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | future | I | mariners = mariner | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | perish | infinitive | I not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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