Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 11
Meanwhile, whether it were that they hustled him forward, or that Jason, of his own accord, thrust a passage through the crowd, it so happened that he soon found himself close to the smoking altar, where King Pelias was sacrificing the black bull.
Who acts: notice, own accord, Jason, King · What happens: be, happen, find, sacrifice · To what, where: Jason, black bull
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 (notice, own accord, Jason, King), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 hustled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 hustled | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hustled | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hustled | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hustled | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hustled | nsubj |
| 8 | hustled | hustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hustled | obj |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 hustled | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jason | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Jason | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Jason | mark |
| 14 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hustled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accord | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 accord | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 accord | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 accord | amod |
| 19 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thrust | punct |
| 21 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accord | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 passage | det |
| 23 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 crowd | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crowd | det |
| 26 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passage | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crowd | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 happened | nsubj |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 happened | advmod |
| 30 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hustled | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 found | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 found | advmod |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 happened | advcl |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 found | obj |
| 36 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 found | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 altar | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 altar | det |
| 39 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 altar | compound |
| 40 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 close | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sacrificing | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 sacrificing | advmod |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 sacrificing | nsubj |
| 44 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 King | flat |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 sacrificing | aux |
| 46 | sacrificing | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 altar | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 bull | det |
| 48 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 bull | amod |
| 49 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sacrificing | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hustled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | notice | Jason obl; forward, hustle, meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | Jason's own accord and thrust | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Jason | Jason | close, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 4 | sacrifice | past · progressive | King | the black bull | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bull=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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