Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 70

As for Mr. Bright himself, he is now in his senior year at Williams College, and has a prospect of graduating with some degree of honorable distinction at the next Commencement.

Who acts: Mr., prospect · What happens: be, have, graduate · To what, where: Williams College, prospect, next Commencement

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 (Mr., prospect), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Bright	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Bright	nmod:desc
4	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 has	obl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 Bright	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 year	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 year	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 year	cop
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 year	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 year	nmod:poss
12	senior	senior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Bright	appos
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 College	case
15	Williams	Williams	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 College	compound
16	College	College	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 year	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 has	cc
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 prospect	det
21	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 graduating	mark
23	graduating	graduate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 prospect	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 degree	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 degree	det
26	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 graduating	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 distinction	case
28	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 distinction	amod
29	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 degree	nmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 Commencement	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Commencement	det
32	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Commencement	amod
33	Commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 graduating	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mr.		Williams College	in Mr.'s senior year; now		tree rules
2	have	present		a prospect			as Bright Mr. Mr.	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prospect=Patient
3	graduate	gerund	a prospect not said here		the next Commencement		with some degree of honorable distinction	tree rules

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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