Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 66
What are all the splendors you speak of without affection?
Who acts: splendors, you · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: splendors · 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 (splendors, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1660): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 splendors | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 splendors | det |
| 5 | splendors | splendor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendors | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 speak | obl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 affection | case |
| 10 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splendors | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all splendors without affection | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | you | all splendors without affection not said here | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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