Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 101

"Tell me, wondrous image," exclaimed Jason,--"since you inherit the wisdom of the Speaking Oak of Dodona, whose daughter you are,--tell me, where shall I find fifty bold youths, who will take each of them an oar of my galley?

Who acts: you, Jason, need, fifty bold youths · What happens: tell, exclaim, inherit, find, take · To what, where: wondrous image, Jason, wisdom, need, fifty bold youths, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jason, need, fifty bold youths), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 image	punct
5	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 image	amod
6	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
10	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
14	since	since	SCONJ	_	16 inherit	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 inherit	nsubj
16	inherit	inherit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wisdom	det
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inherit	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Oak	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Oak	det
21	Speaking	Speaking	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Oak	compound
22	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wisdom	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Dodona	case
24	Dodona	Dodona	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Oak	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 daughter	punct
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Oak	appos
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 are	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 daughter	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 daughter	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 inherit	punct
32	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 find	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 find	advmod
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 find	aux
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 find	nsubj
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tell	conj
39	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 youths	nummod
40	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 youths	amod
41	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 find	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 take	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 take	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 take	aux
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 youths	acl:relcl
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	45 take	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 each	nmod
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 oar	det
50	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 take	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 galley	case
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 galley	nmod:poss
53	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 oar	nmod
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	wondrous image	Jason	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Jason			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	inherit in a quote	present	you	the wisdom of the Speaking Oak of Dodona		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		need	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	find in a quote	shall	need	fifty bold youths		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
6	take in a quote	future	fifty bold youths	each		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument each=Theme oar=Destination

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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