Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 91

Nevertheless, we will have it done, lest their bad example should corrupt the other hogs.

Who acts: we, form, bad example, comrades · What happens: have, do, corrupt, exemplify · To what, where: form, other hogs

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 (we, form, bad example, comrades), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 corrupt	punct
9	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 corrupt	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 example	nmod:poss
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 example	amod
12	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 corrupt	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 corrupt	aux
14	corrupt	corrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hogs	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hogs	amod
17	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 corrupt	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	we	form	nevertheless property	tree rules
2	do	participle	form not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	corrupt	should	comrades's bad example	the other hogs		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hog=Patient
4	exemplify		comrades = comrade			nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=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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