Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 36

O, pray do not think of going near him.

Who acts: you · What happens: pray, not think, go

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), 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	O	o	INTJ	_	3 pray	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 O	punct
3	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pray	ccomp
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 think	advcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not think speech: other	present · do-support	you not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	gerund	you not said here	near man	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=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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