Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 93
I offer you my palace and my crown, and all the riches that are under the earth; and you treat me as if I were doing you an injury.
Who acts: I, riches, you, my · What happens: offer, be, treat, do, crown · To what, where: palace, you, earth, me
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 (I, riches, you, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 offer | nsubj |
| 2 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 offer | obj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 palace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offer | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crown | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palace | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 riches | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 riches | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 riches | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 riches | det |
| 13 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 offer | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 earth | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 earth | cop |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 riches | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 treat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 treat | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 treat | nsubj |
| 22 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 offer | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 treat | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 doing | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 doing | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 doing | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 doing | aux |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 treat | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 doing | obj |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 injury | det |
| 31 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 doing | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | I | my palace and my crown | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | all riches | the earth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | treat | present | you | me | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | do | past · progressive | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | crown | my | nom crown «communication 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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