Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 44

They are a band of enormous giants, all of whom have six arms apiece, and a club, a sword, or some other weapon in each of their hands."

Who acts: objects, all, club · What happens: be, have, sword · To what, where: band, six arms

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 (objects, all, club), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 band	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 band	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 band	det
4	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 giants	case
6	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giants	amod
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 band	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 have	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 all	nmod
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 band	parataxis
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 arms	nummod
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	apiece	apiece	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 arms	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sword	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sword	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 club	det
19	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sword	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sword	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sword	det
22	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weapon	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 weapon	cc
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 weapon	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 weapon	amod
27	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sword	appos
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 each	case
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 weapon	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 hands	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hands	nmod:poss
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 each	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 band	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 band	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	objects = object	a band	of enormous giants	tree rules
2	have	present	all	six arms		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	sword		a club			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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