Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 10
Jason appointed Tiphys to be helmsman because he was a star-gazer, and knew the points of the compass.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: appoint, be, know, point · To what, where: Tiphys, helmsman, star gazer, points, compass
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 (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 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Tiphys | Tiphys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 appointed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 helmsman | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helmsman | cop |
| 6 | helmsman | helmsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appointed | xcomp |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 gazer | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazer | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gazer | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gazer | det |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazer | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 star | punct |
| 13 | gazer | gazer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appointed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knew | cc |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appointed | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 points | det |
| 18 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knew | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 compass | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 compass | det |
| 21 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 points | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past | Jason | Tiphys | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiphys=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | helmsman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Jason | a star gazer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | the points of the compass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer point=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | point | the compass | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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