Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 56

The good Chiron, whether half horse or no, had taught him that the noblest use of his strength was to assist the weak; and also that he must treat every young woman as if she were his sister, and every old one like a mother.

Who acts: noblest use, Jason, creature · What happens: teach, be, treat, use · To what, where: good Chiron, Jason, young woman, strength

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 (noblest use, Jason, creature), 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 Chiron	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Chiron	amod
3	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 taught	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 horse	mark
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 horse	det:predet
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Chiron	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 no	cc
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 horse	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Chiron	punct
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taught	aux
12	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taught	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 assist	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 use	det
16	noblest	noble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 use	amod
17	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 assist	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 strength	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 strength	nmod:poss
20	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 use	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 assist	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 assist	mark
23	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 taught	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 weak	det
25	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 assist	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 treat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 treat	cc
28	also	also	ADV	_	32 treat	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 treat	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 treat	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 treat	aux
32	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 taught	parataxis
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 woman	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 woman	amod
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 treat	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	41 sister	case
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 sister	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 sister	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sister	cop
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sister	nmod:poss
41	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 treat	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 one	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 one	cc
44	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	46 one	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 one	amod
46	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sister	appos
47	like	like	ADP	_	49 mother	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 mother	det
49	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 one	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the good Chiron	Jason		tree rules
2	is	past	the noblest use of Jason's strength			assist property	tree rules
3	treat	must	Jason		every young woman		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	creature			as Jason's sister	tree rules
5	use			Jason's strength			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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