Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 49
And, Jason, unless you will help an old woman at her need, you ought not to be a king.
Who acts: Jason, you, mother · What happens: help, not be, need · To what, where: old woman, need, king
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, you, mother), 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 | _ | 8 help | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jason | punct |
| 3 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jason | punct |
| 5 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 help | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 need | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 need | nmod:poss |
| 14 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 king | nsubj |
| 17 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 king | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 king | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 king | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 king | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | future | Jason | a old woman | mother's need | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not is a | ought | you | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | mother | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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