Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 37
At a certain island, they were hospitably received by King Cyzicus, its sovereign, who made a feast for them, and treated them like brothers.
Who acts: King, sovereign · What happens: receive, make, treat · To what, where: events, certain island, feast
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 (King, sovereign), 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 island | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | amod |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 received | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 island | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 received | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 received | aux:pass |
| 8 | hospitably | hospitably | ADV | _ | 9 received | advmod |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 received | obl |
| 12 | Cyzicus | Cyzicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sovereign | punct |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 King | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sovereign | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feast | det |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treated | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 treated | cc |
| 25 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 received | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 treated | obj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 brothers | case |
| 28 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 treated | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | King | events = event | a certain island | hospitably property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at island=Location | ||
| 2 | make | past | island's sovereign | a feast | for events = event | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent feast=Product for they=Asset | |||
| 3 | treat | past | King not said here | events = event | like brothers | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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