Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 23
I know not how far Jason had traveled, when he came to a turbulent river, which rushed right across his pathway, with specks of white foam among its black eddies, hurrying tumultuously onward, and roaring angrily as it went.
Who acts: I, Jason, turbulent river, heroic · What happens: not know, travel, come, rush, hurry, roar · To what, where: turbulent river, pathway
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 (I, Jason, turbulent river, heroic), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 know | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 know | advmod |
| 6 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 traveled | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 traveled | aux |
| 8 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 far | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 15 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 river | amod |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rushed | nsubj |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 river | acl:relcl |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 pathway | advmod |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 pathway | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pathway | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 specks | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 specks | case |
| 26 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 foam | case |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 foam | amod |
| 29 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 specks | nmod |
| 30 | among | among | ADP | _ | 33 eddies | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 eddies | nmod:poss |
| 32 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 eddies | amod |
| 33 | eddies | eddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 specks | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hurrying | punct |
| 35 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 36 | tumultuously | tumultuously | ADV | _ | 37 onward | advmod |
| 37 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 35 hurrying | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 roaring | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 roaring | cc |
| 40 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 hurrying | conj |
| 41 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 40 roaring | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 went | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 went | nsubj |
| 44 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 roaring | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | travel | past · perfect | Jason | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Jason | a turbulent river | with specks of white foam among foam's black eddies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | rush | past | a turbulent river | Jason's pathway | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pathway=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | hurry | gerund | Jason not said here | onward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | roar | gerund | Jason not said here | angrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | past | heroic | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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