Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 34

He was my instructor, and taught me music, and horsemanship, and how to cure wounds, and likewise how to inflict wounds with my weapons!"

Who acts: Centaur, instructor · What happens: be, teach, cure, inflict · To what, where: instructor, music, me, wounds

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 (Centaur, instructor), 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	4 instructor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 instructor	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 instructor	nmod:poss
4	instructor	instructor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taught	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 taught	cc
7	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 instructor	acl:relcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 taught	iobj
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taught	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 horsemanship	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 horsemanship	cc
12	horsemanship	horsemanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 music	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cure	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cure	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cure	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cure	mark
17	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 taught	conj
18	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cure	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 inflict	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 inflict	cc
21	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	24 inflict	advmod
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 inflict	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 inflict	mark
24	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 instructor	acl:relcl
25	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 inflict	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 weapons	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 weapons	nmod:poss
28	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 inflict	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 instructor	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 instructor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Centaur	my instructor			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past	my instructor not said here	music	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient music=Topic
3	cure	to-infinitive	my instructor not said here	wounds			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer wound=Source
4	inflict	to-infinitive		wounds		with my weapons; likewise property	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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