Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 39
King Cyzicus hereupon informed them that he and his subjects were greatly abused and incommoded by the inhabitants of a neighboring mountain, who made war upon them, and killed many people, and ravaged the country.
Who acts: King hereupon, neighboring mountain · What happens: inform, abuse, incommode, neighbor, make, kill · To what, where: Argonauts, hereupon, war, many people, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 hereupon, neighboring mountain), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hereupon | compound |
| 2 | Cyzicus | Cyzicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | hereupon | hereupon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 informed | nsubj |
| 4 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 informed | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 abused | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 abused | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 subjects | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 10 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 he | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 abused | aux:pass |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 13 abused | advmod |
| 13 | abused | abuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 informed | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 incommoded | cc |
| 15 | incommoded | incommode | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 abused | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 inhabitants | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inhabitants | det |
| 18 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 incommoded | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mountain | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mountain | det |
| 21 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 mountain | amod |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inhabitants | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 killed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 killed | cc |
| 31 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 informed | parataxis |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 killed | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ravaged | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ravaged | cc |
| 36 | ravaged | ravage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 killed | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 country | det |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ravaged | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past | King hereupon | Argonauts = argonaut | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | abuse | past · passive | hereupon | greatly property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | incommode | participle | by the inhabitants of a neighboring mountain | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | make | past | a neighboring mountain | war | upon Argonauts = argonaut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product | |||
| 6 | kill | past | many people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 7 | ravage | past | the country | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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