Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 35
Nor will I taste a morsel of food, even if you keep me forever in your palace."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: taste, keep · To what, where: morsel, me, palace
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 4 taste | discourse |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 taste | nsubj |
| 4 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 morsel | det |
| 6 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taste | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morsel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taste | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | I | a morsel of food | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme morsel=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | your palace | forever property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in palace=Location |
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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