Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 9

I ought not to forget the prophets and conjurors, of whom there were several in the crew, and who could foretell what would happen to-morrow or the next day, or a hundred years hence, but were generally quite unconscious of what was passing at the moment.

Who acts: I, unconscious · What happens: not forget, foretell, happen, be, pass · To what, where: prophets, unconscious

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 (I, unconscious), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 forget	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 forget	mark
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prophets	det
7	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 conjurors	cc
9	conjurors	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prophets	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whom	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 forget	parataxis
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 whom	acl:relcl
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 were	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 crew	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crew	det
18	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 several	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 foretell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 foretell	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 foretell	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 foretell	aux
23	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forget	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 happen	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 happen	aux
26	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 foretell	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 morrow	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 to	punct
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 happen	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 day	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 morrow	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 years	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 years	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 years	det
37	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	parataxis
39	hence	hence	ADV	_	38 years	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 unconscious	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 unconscious	cc
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 unconscious	cop
43	generally	generally	ADV	_	45 unconscious	advmod
44	quite	quite	ADV	_	45 unconscious	advmod
45	unconscious	unconscious	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forget	parataxis
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 passing	mark
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 passing	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 passing	aux
49	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 unconscious	acl
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 moment	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 moment	det
52	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 passing	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	ought	I	the prophets and conjurors			tree rules
2	foretell	could					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	happen	would				to morrow or the next day	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		unconscious		generally property	tree rules
5	pass	past · progressive	unconscious		moment		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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