Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 38

The husbandmen plowed and planted as usual; but there lay the rich black furrows, all as barren as a desert of sand.

Who acts: husbandmen · What happens: plow, plant, lie · To what, where: husbandmen, rich black furrows

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 (husbandmen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husbandmen	det
2	husbandmen	husbandman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	nsubj
3	plowed	plow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 husbandmen	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 planted	cc
5	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 plowed	conj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 usual	case
7	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 planted	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lay	advmod
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 furrows	det
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 furrows	amod
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 furrows	amod
15	furrows	furrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 barren	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 barren	nsubj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 barren	advmod
19	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 desert	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 desert	det
22	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 barren	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 sand	case
24	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 desert	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plow	participle		the husbandmen not said here			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	plant	participle				as usual	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past	the husbandmen	the rich black furrows	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location furrow=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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