Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 58

Take the form of the brute whom you most resemble.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, resemble, form · To what, where: form, brute

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 form	det
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brute	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brute	det
6	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	nmod
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 resemble	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 resemble	nsubj
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 resemble	advmod
10	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 brute	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the form of the brute	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	resemble	infinitive	you	the brute	tree rules
3	form			the brute	nom form «communication 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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