Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 76

At Jason's request, Argus readily consented to build him a galley so big that it should require fifty strong men to row it; although no vessel of such a size and burden had heretofore been seen in the world.

Who acts: Argus, galley, Jason · What happens: consent, build, require, row, see, request · To what, where: request, galley, Argus, fifty strong men, vessel, world

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 (Argus, galley, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 request	case
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 request	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Jason	case
4	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consented	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 request	punct
6	Argus	Argus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 consented	nsubj
7	readily	readily	ADV	_	8 consented	advmod
8	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 build	mark
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 consented	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 build	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 galley	det
13	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 big	advmod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 build	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 require	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 require	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 require	aux
19	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 big	advcl
20	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 require	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 row	mark
24	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 require	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 row	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
27	although	although	SCONJ	_	39 seen	mark
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 vessel	det
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 size	case
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 size	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 size	det
33	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 vessel	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 burden	cc
35	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 size	conj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
37	heretofore	heretofore	ADV	_	39 seen	advmod
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 seen	aux:pass
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 consented	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 world	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Argus			Jason's request	readily property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	build	to-infinitive	Argus not said here	a galley	Argus			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary galley=Product
3	require	should	galley	fifty strong men				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Precondition
4	row	to-infinitive	galley not said here	galley				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
5	see	past · perfect · passive		no vessel of such size and burden		the world	heretofore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	request		Jason					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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