Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 16
To confess the truth, I myself had already reflected that it was an unjustifiable act to take you away from your good mother.
Who acts: truth · What happens: confess, reflect, be, take · To what, where: truth, I, unjustifiable act, you
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 confess | mark |
| 2 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confess | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reflected | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 reflected | nsubj |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reflected | aux |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 reflected | advmod |
| 10 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 confess | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 act | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 act | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 act | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 act | det |
| 15 | unjustifiable | unjustifiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 act | amod |
| 16 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reflected | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 act | acl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 mother | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mother | amod |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 confess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | to-infinitive | the truth | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reflect | past · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | truth | a unjustifiable act | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | you | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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