Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 2
The mighty Hercules, whose shoulders afterwards upheld the sky, was one of them.
Who acts: mighty Hercules · What happens: uphold, be · To what, where: sky, one
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 (mighty Hercules), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hercules | det |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hercules | amod |
| 3 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 upheld | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shoulders | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Hercules | conj |
| 7 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 upheld | advmod |
| 8 | upheld | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 upheld | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 upheld | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 upheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uphold | past | the mighty Hercules and the mighty Hercules and the mighty Hercules's shoulders's shoulders | the sky | afterwards property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | one | of Hercules | 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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