Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 95

He inquired of one of the multitude what town it was near by, and why so many persons were here assembled together.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: inquire, assemble · To what, where: many persons

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 (Jason), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 inquired	nsubj
2	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inquired	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 multitude	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 multitude	det
7	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 one	nmod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 by	nsubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 by	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 by	cop
12	near	near	ADV	_	13 by	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	8 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 assembled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 assembled	cc
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 assembled	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 persons	amod
19	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 assembled	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 assembled	aux:pass
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 assembled	advmod
22	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 inquired	conj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 assembled	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	Jason					of one of the multitude	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of one=Recipient
2	assemble	past · passive		many persons		here		together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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