Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 89

At all events, turn back who may, I will never see Greece again, unless I carry with me the Golden Fleece."

Who acts: events, I · What happens: turn back, not see, carry · To what, where: Greece, Golden Fleece

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 (events, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 events	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 events	det
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 events	punct
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 may	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj
14	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 see	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carry	punct
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	19 carry	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 carry	nsubj
19	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 carry	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Fleece	det
23	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Fleece	amod
24	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 carry	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	infinitive	all events				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not see	future	I	Greece	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer greece=Stimulus
3	carry a condition, not said to happen	present	I	the Golden Fleece		with me	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme

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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