Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 6

The good Chiron taught his pupils how to play upon the harp, and how to cure diseases, and how to use the sword and shield, together with various other branches of education, in which the lads of those days used to be instructed, instead of writing and arithmetic.

Who acts: good Chiron, lads · What happens: teach, play, cure, use, instruct · To what, where: pupils, diseases, sword

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 (good Chiron, lads), 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	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pupils	nmod:poss
6	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taught	obj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 play	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taught	xcomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 harp	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harp	det
12	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cure	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cure	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cure	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cure	mark
17	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 play	conj
18	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cure	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 use	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 use	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 use	mark
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sword	det
25	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shield	cc
27	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sword	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 branches	punct
29	together	together	ADV	_	33 branches	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 branches	case
31	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 branches	amod
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 branches	amod
33	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 education	case
35	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 branches	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 used	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 used	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 lads	det
40	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 used	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 days	case
42	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 days	det
43	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lads	nmod
44	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 use	parataxis
45	to	to	PART	_	47 instructed	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 instructed	aux:pass
47	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 used	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 writing	punct
49	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	51 writing	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	49 instead	fixed
51	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 instructed	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 arithmetic	cc
53	arithmetic	arithmetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 writing	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	the good Chiron		Chiron's pupils		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent pupil=Recipient clause=Topic
2	play	to-infinitive	the good Chiron not said here			upon the harp	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cure	to-infinitive	the good Chiron not said here	diseases			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer disease=Source
4	use	to-infinitive		the sword and shield		with various other branches of education	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
5	use	past	the lads of that days				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	instruct speech: other	to-infinitive · passive	the lads of that days not said here			instead writing and arithmetic	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»

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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