Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 18
And, being come to the strength of a man, Jason determined to set all this business to rights, and to punish the wicked Pelias for wronging his dear father, and to cast him down from the throne, and seat himself there instead.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: come, determine, set, punish, wrong, cast down · To what, where: strength, business, wicked Pelias, dear father, Jason, throne
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 come | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 come | aux:pass |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 strength | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strength | det |
| 7 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strength | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 12 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 13 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strength | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 business | det:predet |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 business | det |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 rights | case |
| 20 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 punish | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 punish | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 punish | mark |
| 24 | punish | punish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Pelias | det |
| 26 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Pelias | amod |
| 27 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 punish | obj |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 wronging | mark |
| 29 | wronging | wrong | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 punish | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 father | amod |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wronging | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cast | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cast | cc |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 cast | mark |
| 36 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 punish | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 cast | obj |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 cast | compound:prt |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 throne | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 throne | det |
| 41 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cast | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 there | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 there | cc |
| 44 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 there | obl |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 44 seat | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advcl |
| 47 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 46 there | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund · passive | the strength of a man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: to strength=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | determine | past | Jason | the strength of a man not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | all business | to rights | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient business=Result | |||
| 4 | punish | to-infinitive | the wicked Pelias | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pelias=Patient | |||||
| 5 | wrong | gerund | Jason's dear father | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cast down | to-infinitive | Jason | the throne | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent he=Product from throne=Material |
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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