Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 77

Phoebus (who, as I have told you, was an exquisite poet) forthwith began to make an ode about the poor mother's grief; and, if we were to judge of his sensibility by this beautiful production, he must have been endowed with a very tender heart.

Who acts: Phoebus, forthwith, we · What happens: tell, be, begin, make, judge, endow · To what, where: you, exquisite poet, ode, Phoebus · 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 (Phoebus, forthwith, we), 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	Phoebus	phoebus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poet	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 told	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Phoebus	appos
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Phoebus	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poet	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poet	det
13	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poet	amod
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 forthwith	punct
16	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poet	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ode	det
21	ode	ode	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	27 grief	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mother	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mother	amod
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grief	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 mother	case
27	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ode	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 endowed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 endowed	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 judge	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 judge	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 judge	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	35 judge	mark
35	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 endowed	advcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 sensibility	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 sensibility	nmod:poss
38	sensibility	sensibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 judge	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 production	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 production	det
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 production	amod
42	production	production	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 judge	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 judge	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 endowed	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 endowed	aux
46	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 endowed	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 endowed	aux:pass
48	endowed	endow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 poet	conj
49	with	with	ADP	_	53 heart	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 heart	det
51	very	very	ADV	_	52 tender	advmod
52	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 heart	amod
53	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 endowed	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 poet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	Phoebus		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	past	Phoebus	a exquisite poet			tree rules
3	begin	past	forthwith	a exquisite poet not said here			tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	forthwith not said here	a ode		about the poor mother's grief	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ode=Product
5	judge a condition, not said to happen	past	we			of Phoebus's sensibility; by this beautiful production	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of sensibility=Theme
6	endow	must · perfect · passive		Phoebus		with a tender heart	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with heart=Theme

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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