Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 65
Thou shalt die, vile wretch, and do no more mischief in the world, by tempting human beings into the vices which make beasts of them."
Who acts: Thou, vices · What happens: die, do, tempt, make · To what, where: vile wretch, more mischief, world, human beings, vices, beasts
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 (Thou, vices), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 die | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | aux |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wretch | punct |
| 5 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wretch | amod |
| 6 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 die | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 mischief | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 mischief | amod |
| 12 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mischief | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempting | punct |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 tempting | mark |
| 18 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 do | advcl |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beings | amod |
| 20 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tempting | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 vices | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 vices | det |
| 23 | vices | vice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tempting | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 make | nsubj |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 vices | acl:relcl |
| 26 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beasts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | shall | Thou | vile wretch | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Thou not said here | no more mischief | the world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | tempt | gerund | Thou not said here | human beings | the vices | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent being=Recipient | |||
| 4 | make | present | the vices | beasts of beasts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beast=Product |
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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