Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 66

Jason's two spears, one in each hand, kept him from stumbling, and enabled him to feel his way among the hidden rocks; although every instant, he expected that his companion and himself would go down the stream, together with the driftwood of shattered trees, and the carcasses of the sheep and cow.

Who acts: two spears, Jason, spear · What happens: keep, stumble, enable, feel, expect, go down · To what, where: Jason, way, hidden rocks, companion, stream

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 (two spears, Jason, spear), 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	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jason	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 spears	nummod
4	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 spears	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hand	det
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spears	punct
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj
13	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 stumbling	mark
14	stumbling	stumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 kept	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 enabled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 enabled	cc
17	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 enabled	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 enabled	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feel	obj
23	among	among	ADP	_	26 rocks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rocks	det
25	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rocks	amod
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feel	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 expected	punct
28	although	although	SCONJ	_	30 instant	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 instant	det
30	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expected	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 instant	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 expected	nsubj
33	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 companion	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 companion	nmod:poss
36	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expected	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 go	cc
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 go	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 expected	conj
41	down	down	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 stream	det
43	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 go	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 together	punct
45	together	together	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 driftwood	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 driftwood	det
48	driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 go	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 trees	case
50	shattered	shattered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 trees	amod
51	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 driftwood	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 carcasses	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 carcasses	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 carcasses	det
55	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 sheep	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 sheep	det
58	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 carcasses	nmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 cow	cc
60	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sheep	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Jason's two spears	Jason		the carcasses of the sheep and cow obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stumble	gerund	Jason's two spears not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enable	past	Jason's two spears not said here	Jason			tree rules
4	feel	to-infinitive	Jason not said here	Jason's way	the hidden rocks		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme among rock=Location
5	expect	past	spear	Jason's companion		although every instant	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme
6	go down	would	spear	the stream		with the driftwood of shattered trees; down, together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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