Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 5
The famous Hercules was one, and so was Achilles, and Philoctetes likewise, and Aesculapius, who acquired immense repute as a doctor.
Who acts: famous Hercules, Aesculapius · What happens: be, acquire · To what, where: one, Achilles, immense repute
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 (famous Hercules, Aesculapius), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hercules | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hercules | amod |
| 3 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Achilles | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Achilles | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 Achilles | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Achilles | cop |
| 10 | Achilles | Achilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 one | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Philoctetes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Philoctetes | cc |
| 13 | Philoctetes | Philoctete | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 13 Philoctetes | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 acquired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 acquired | cc |
| 17 | Aesculapius | Aesculapius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 acquired | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 acquired | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 acquired | nsubj |
| 20 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | parataxis |
| 21 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 repute | amod |
| 22 | repute | repute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 acquired | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 doctor | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 doctor | det |
| 25 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 acquired | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the famous Hercules | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Achilles | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | acquire | past | Aesculapius | immense repute | as a doctor | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repute=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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