Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 27

For though he will be a strong man and a hero in his day, yet, on account of your folly, he will grow old, and finally die, like the sons of other women.

Who acts: Demophoon · What happens: be, grow, die, account · To what, where: strong man, folly

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demophoon), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	8 man	mark
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 man	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 man	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grow	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hero	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hero	det
11	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 day	nmod:poss
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hero	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 account	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	19 account	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yet	punct
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 account	case
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 folly	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 folly	nmod:poss
22	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 account	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grow	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 grow	aux
26	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grow	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 die	cc
30	finally	finally	ADV	_	31 die	advmod
31	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 grow	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sons	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 sons	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sons	det
35	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 die	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 women	case
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 women	amod
38	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sons	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	future	Demophoon	a strong man and a hero in Demophoon's day yet account of your folly		tree rules
2	grow	future	Demophoon		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	Demophoon not said here		like the sons of other women; finally property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	account			your folly		nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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