Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 67
If you would only stay with me of your own accord, it would make me happier than the possession of a hundred such palaces as this."
Who acts: you, accord · What happens: stay, make, possess · To what, where: me, hundred such palaces
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 (you, accord), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 accord | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 accord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 accord | amod |
| 11 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 possession | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 possession | det |
| 20 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 happier | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 palaces | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 palaces | nummod |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 palaces | amod |
| 25 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 possession | nmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 palaces | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay a condition, not said to happen | would | you | with me; of your own accord | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | would | accord | me | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | |||
| 3 | possess | hundred such palaces as this | nom possession «act 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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