Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 46

Yes; they are six-armed giants, as you say, and these are the enemies whom I and my subjects have to contend with."

Who acts: eyes, six armed giants, I, enemies · What happens: be, say, have, contend · To what, where: six armed giants, enemies · 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 (eyes, six armed giants, I, enemies), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 say	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 giants	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 giants	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 giants	cop
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 giants	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 six	punct
7	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 giants	amod
8	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 say	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 enemies	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 enemies	cc
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 enemies	det
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 enemies	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 enemies	det
18	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	obl
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 have	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 subjects	nmod:poss
23	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 enemies	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 contend	mark
26	contend	contend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	26 contend	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	eyes = eye	six armed giants	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	six armed giants		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		this enemies	tree rules
4	have	present	I	this enemies	tree rules
5	contend	to-infinitive	this enemies not said here		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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