Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 26
But, until I know that she has perished from the face of the earth, I will not allow myself space even to grieve."
Who acts: I, Ceres, space · What happens: know, perish, not allow, grieve · To what, where: face, space, 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 (I, Ceres, space), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 allow | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 allow | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 perished | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 perished | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 perished | aux |
| 9 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perished | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 allow | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 allow | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 allow | advmod |
| 20 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 allow | iobj |
| 22 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 allow | obj |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 grieve | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 grieve | mark |
| 25 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allow | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 allow | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | perish | present · perfect | Ceres | the face of the earth | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from face=Causer | ||||
| 3 | not allow | future | I | space | myself | tree rules | |||
| 4 | grieve not said to happen | to-infinitive | space not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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