Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 80

If you can talk in human language, say what you would have me do."

Who acts: you, me · What happens: talk, say, have, do · To what, where: human language, me · 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 (you, me), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 talk	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 talk	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 language	case
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 language	amod
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 have	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	obj
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	talk a condition, not said to happen	can	you		human language	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	would	you	me		tree rules
4	do	infinitive	me not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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