Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 14

He became a very good harper, I suppose, and skilful in the use of weapons, and tolerably acquainted with herbs and other doctor's stuff, and, above all, an admirable horseman; for, in teaching young people to ride, the good Chiron must have been without a rival among schoolmasters.

Who acts: Jason, I, all, good Chiron · What happens: become, suppose, horseman, teach, ride, be · To what, where: good harper, young people, weapons

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, I, all, good Chiron), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 harper	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 harper	amod
6	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 suppose	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 suppose	nsubj
9	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 skilful	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 skilful	cc
12	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 suppose	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 use	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 use	det
15	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skilful	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 weapons	case
17	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 use	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 acquainted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 acquainted	cc
20	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	_	21 acquainted	advmod
21	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 skilful	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 herbs	case
23	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 acquainted	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stuff	cc
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 doctor	amod
26	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuff	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 doctor	case
28	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 herbs	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 horseman	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 horseman	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
32	above	above	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 horseman	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 horseman	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 horseman	det
36	admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 horseman	amod
37	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 teaching	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 teaching	mark
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 teaching	punct
41	in	in	SCONJ	_	42 teaching	mark
42	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 became	advcl
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 people	amod
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 teaching	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 ride	mark
46	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 teaching	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 rival	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Chiron	det
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Chiron	amod
50	Chiron	chiron	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rival	nsubj
51	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 rival	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 rival	aux
53	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 rival	cop
54	without	without	ADP	_	56 rival	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 rival	det
56	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
57	among	among	ADP	_	58 schoolmasters	case
58	schoolmasters	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 rival	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Jason	a good harper			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	horseman		all				tree rules
4	teach speech: other	gerund	Jason not said here		young people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
5	ride	to-infinitive	Jason not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	is	must · perfect	the good Chiron			without a rival; among schoolmasters	tree rules
7	use			weapons			nom use «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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