Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 4
To be sure, it was a very wretched-looking pomegranate, and seemed to have no more juice in it than an oyster shell.
Who acts: possession · What happens: be, look, seem, have · To what, where: looking pomegranate, more juice, possession
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 (possession), 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 | _ | 3 sure | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pomegranate | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pomegranate | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pomegranate | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pomegranate | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 wretched | advmod |
| 9 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looking | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wretched | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 pomegranate | amod |
| 12 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 juice | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 juice | amod |
| 20 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 juice | nmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 shell | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 shell | det |
| 25 | oyster | oyster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shell | compound |
| 26 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 juice | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | possession | a looking pomegranate | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | no more juice | possession | than a oyster shell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=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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