Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 81

To speak critically, indeed, the latter rather carried the thing to excess, and seemed to make it a point to wallow in the miriest part of the sty, and otherwise to outdo the original swine in their own natural vocation.

Who acts: latter · What happens: speak, carry, excess, seem, make, wallow · To what, where: thing, miriest part, original swine · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (latter), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 speak	mark
2	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 carried	advcl
3	critically	critically	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 indeed	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 speak	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 latter	det
8	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carried	nsubj
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 carried	advmod
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 excess	mark
14	excess	excess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thing	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 point	det
22	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 wallow	mark
24	wallow	wallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 part	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 part	det
27	miriest	miry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 part	amod
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wallow	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sty	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sty	det
31	sty	sty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 outdo	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 outdo	cc
34	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	36 outdo	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 outdo	mark
36	outdo	outdo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 carried	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 swine	det
38	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 swine	amod
39	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 outdo	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 vocation	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 vocation	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 vocation	amod
43	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 vocation	amod
44	vocation	vocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 outdo	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the latter not said here			critically, indeed property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past	the latter	the thing			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	excess	to-infinitive	the latter not said here	the thing not said here			tree rules
4	seem	past	the latter not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	make	to-infinitive	the latter not said here	thing			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary point=Product
6	wallow	to-infinitive	the latter not said here		the miriest part of the sty		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	outdo	to-infinitive	the latter not said here	the original swine		in birth's own natural vocation; otherwise property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot swine=Theme in vocation=Attribute

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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