Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 8

Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?--Or do you meditate the discovery of unknown islands?--or what other cause has procured me the happiness of seeing you at my court?"

Who acts: Pray, you, happiness · What happens: be, meditate, procure, see, discover · To what, where: pleasure voyage, discovery, other cause, you, court, unknown islands

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray, you, happiness), 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	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 voyage	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pray	punct
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 voyage	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 voyage	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 voyage	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voyage	det
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 voyage	compound
8	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 meditate	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 meditate	punct
11	Or	or	CCONJ	_	14 meditate	cc
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 meditate	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 meditate	nsubj
14	meditate	meditate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 voyage	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 discovery	det
16	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meditate	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 islands	case
18	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 islands	amod
19	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 discovery	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 meditate	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 procured	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 procured	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 procured	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cause	amod
25	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 procured	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 procured	aux
27	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 meditate	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 procured	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 happiness	det
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 procured	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 seeing	mark
32	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 happiness	acl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 seeing	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 court	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 court	nmod:poss
36	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seeing	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 voyage	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 voyage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	present	Pray		a pleasure voyage	tree rules
2	meditate	present · do-support	you	the discovery of unknown islands		tree rules
3	procure	present · perfect · passive		other cause		tree rules
4	see	gerund	the happiness not said here	you	my court	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	discover			unknown islands		nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient

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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