Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 76

Why, if you will believe me, they were the sons of that very Phrixus, who, in his childhood, had been carried to Colchis on the back of the golden-fleeced ram.

Who acts: you, voyagers · What happens: believe, be, carry, fleece · To what, where: me, sons, Colchis, back · 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 (you, voyagers), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 believe	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 believe	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 believe	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sons	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sons	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sons	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sons	det
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believe	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 sons	nmod
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 Phrixus	advmod
16	Phrixus	Phrixus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sons	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 childhood	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 childhood	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 childhood	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 childhood	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 childhood	nmod:poss
22	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Phrixus	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 carried	aux:pass
26	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sons	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Colchis	case
28	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 back	det
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	37 ram	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ram	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fleeced	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 golden	punct
36	fleeced	fleece	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 ram	amod
37	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	future	you	me				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	is a	past	voyagers = voyager	the sons			of that; Phrixus nmod	tree rules
3	carry	past · perfect · passive		the sons not said here	Colchis	the back of the fleeced ram		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to colchis=Destination
4	fleece	participle						vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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