Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 25
And when there shall be no more hope of finding her (if that black day is ordained to come), then, if you will give me room to fling myself down, either on these withered leaves or on the naked rock, I will show what it is to be miserable.
Who acts: you, more hope, I · What happens: not be, find, ordain, come, give, fling down · To what, where: more hope, Ceres, room, withered leaves, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, more hope, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hope | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 be | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 be | expl |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hope | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 hope | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 hope | amod |
| 8 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 finding | mark |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hope | acl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finding | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordained | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 ordained | mark |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ordained | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ordained | aux:pass |
| 18 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 finding | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordained | xcomp |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordained | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 then | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 show | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 then | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 give | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 give | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 give | aux |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 show | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fling | mark |
| 32 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 room | acl |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 fling | obj |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 fling | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 leaves | punct |
| 36 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 40 leaves | cc:preconj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 leaves | case |
| 38 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 40 leaves | det |
| 39 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 leaves | amod |
| 40 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 give | iobj |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 rock | cc |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 rock | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 rock | det |
| 44 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 rock | amod |
| 45 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leaves | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 show | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 show | aux |
| 49 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 finding | advcl |
| 50 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 55 miserable | nsubj |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 miserable | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 miserable | cop |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 miserable | mark |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 miserable | cop |
| 55 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 show | ccomp |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | imperative | you not said here | more hope | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | more hope not said here | Ceres | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ordain a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | day | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | room | this withered leaves or the naked rock | tree rules | |||
| 6 | fling down | to-infinitive | you not said here | myself | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | show | future | I | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is | present | miserable property | 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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