Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 50
What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed?
Who acts: kings · What happens: be, make, save, succor, distress · To what, where: kings, feeble
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 (kings), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 kings | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kings | cop |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kings | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 made | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kings | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 succor | mark |
| 9 | succor | succor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 save | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feeble | det |
| 11 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 succor | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 distressed | cc |
| 13 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feeble | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 kings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | kings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | kings not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | kings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | succor | to-infinitive | kings not said here | the feeble | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeble=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | distress | participle | kings not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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