Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 1

Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron, the four-footed pedagogue, and were therefore old schoolmates of Jason, and knew him to be a lad of spirit.

Who acts: Chiron · What happens: educate, be, know · To what, where: Many, old schoolmates, Jason, lad

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chiron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:2023): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 educated	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 fellows	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 fellows	det
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellows	amod
5	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 educated	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 educated	aux:pass
8	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Chiron	case
10	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 educated	obl:agent
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pedagogue	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pedagogue	det
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 footed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 footed	punct
15	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pedagogue	amod
16	pedagogue	pedagogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Chiron	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 schoolmates	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 schoolmates	cc
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 schoolmates	cop
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 schoolmates	advmod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 schoolmates	amod
22	schoolmates	schoolmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 educated	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Jason	case
24	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 schoolmates	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 educated	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	32 lad	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 lad	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lad	det
32	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 spirit	case
34	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lad	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 educated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	educate speech: other	past · perfect · passive	Chiron	Many of this brave fellows		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	Chiron not said here	old schoolmates	of Jason; therefore property	tree rules
3	know	past	Chiron not said here	Jason		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is a	to-infinitive	Chiron not said here	a lad	of spirit	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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