Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 84

Ah, brave Jason, turn back before it is too late.

Who acts: brave Jason, difficulty · What happens: turn back, be

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 (brave Jason, difficulty), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Jason	amod
4	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turn	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 late	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 late	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 late	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 late	advmod
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	infinitive	brave Jason						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	difficulty					late property	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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