Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 97

Our monarch has summoned us together, that we may see him sacrifice a black bull to Neptune, who, they say, is his majesty's father.

Who acts: monarch, we, black bull · What happens: summon, see, sacrifice, say, be · To what, where: us, monarch, black bull, Neptune, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (monarch, we, black bull), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 monarch	nmod:poss
2	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 summoned	aux
4	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 summoned	iobj
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 summoned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 summoned	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bull	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bull	amod
16	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sacrifice	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Neptune	case
18	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bull	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 say	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bull	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 father	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 majesty	nmod:poss
27	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 father	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 majesty	case
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	summon	present · perfect	Our monarch		us	together property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	see	may	we	monarch			tree rules
3	sacrifice	infinitive	monarch not said here	a black bull	Neptune		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Theme to neptune=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present	a black bull				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	Our monarch not said here	monarch's majesty's father			tree rules

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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