Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 78
Every atom of the gold and silver that lies under the earth belongs to me, to say nothing of the copper and iron, and of the coal mines, which supply me with abundance of fuel.
Who acts: gold, atom, coal mines · What happens: lie, belong, say, supply · To what, where: earth, me, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, atom, coal mines), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 atom | det |
| 2 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belongs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 atom | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silver | cc |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gold | acl:relcl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 13 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 belongs | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 belongs | conj |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 say | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 copper | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 copper | det |
| 22 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 iron | cc |
| 24 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 copper | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mines | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 mines | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 mines | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mines | det |
| 29 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mines | compound |
| 30 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 say | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 supply | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 supply | nsubj |
| 33 | supply | supply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 mines | acl:relcl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 supply | iobj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 abundance | case |
| 36 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 supply | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 fuel | case |
| 38 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 abundance | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the gold and silver | the earth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | every atom of the gold and silver | me | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | every atom of the gold and silver not said here | nothing | of the coal mines | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 4 | supply | present | the coal mines | me | with abundance of fuel | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with abundance=Theme |
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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