Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 71

In his oration for the bachelor's degree, he gives me to understand, he will treat of the classical myths, viewed in the aspect of baby stories, and has a great mind to discuss the expediency of using up the whole of ancient history, for the same purpose.

Who acts: Mr., expediency · What happens: give, understand, treat, view, have, discuss · To what, where: me, oration, classical myths, aspect, great mind, expediency

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., expediency), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 oration	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 oration	nmod:poss
3	oration	oration	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 degree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bachelor	det
6	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 degree	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bachelor	case
8	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 oration	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 oration	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gives	nsubj
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gives	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 understand	mark
14	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gives	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 treat	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 treat	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 treat	aux
18	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 understand	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 myths	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 myths	det
21	classical	classical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 myths	amod
22	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 treat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 viewed	punct
24	viewed	view	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 myths	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 aspect	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 aspect	det
27	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 viewed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 stories	case
29	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stories	compound
30	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 aspect	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 has	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 has	cc
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gives	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mind	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mind	amod
36	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 discuss	mark
38	discuss	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 mind	acl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 expediency	det
40	expediency	expediency	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 discuss	obj
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 using	mark
42	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 expediency	acl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 using	compound:prt
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 whole	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 using	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 history	case
47	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 history	amod
48	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 whole	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 purpose	punct
50	for	for	ADP	_	53 purpose	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 purpose	det
52	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 purpose	amod
53	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	Mr.		me	Mr.'s oration for the bachelor's degree		tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	Mr. not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	treat	future	Mr.				of the classical myths	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	view	participle		the classical myths not said here		the aspect of baby stories		vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	have	present		a great mind				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
6	discuss speech: other	to-infinitive		the expediency				vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expediency=Topic
7	use up	gerund	the expediency not said here	the whole				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient

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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