Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 55

Indeed, except that there was a necessity for it--and that the inner life of the legends cannot be come at save by making them entirely one's own property--there is no defense to be made.

Who acts: defense · What happens: be, not come, make · To what, where: necessity, inner life, save, legends

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (defense), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 necessity	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	except	except	ADP	_	6 was	mark
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 necessity	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 necessity	det
8	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 necessity	nmod
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 life	det
15	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 life	amod
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 legends	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 legends	det
19	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 life	nmod
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 come	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	aux:pass
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 necessity	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 save	case
25	save	save	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 making	mark
27	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 come	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 making	obj
29	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	27 making	advmod
30	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 property	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 one	case
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 property	amod
33	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 making	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 is	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 is	expl
36	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 property	parataxis
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 defense	det
38	defense	defense	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 is	nsubj
39	to	to	PART	_	41 made	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 made	aux:pass
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 defense	acl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 necessity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a necessity		for necessity; indeed property	tree rules
2	not come	can · passive		the inner life of the legends	save		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	make	gerund		legends = legend		one's own property obl; entirely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
4	be	present	no defense		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive · passive	no defense not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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