Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 89

Jason, I suppose, had been taught how to draw a furrow by the good old Chiron, who, perhaps, used to allow himself to be harnessed to the plow.

Who acts: I, Jason · What happens: suppose, teach, draw, use, allow, harness · To what, where: Jason, furrow, good old Chiron

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 (I, Jason), 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	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taught	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suppose	nsubj
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Jason	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jason	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taught	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 taught	aux:pass
8	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 draw	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 draw	mark
11	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 taught	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 furrow	det
13	furrow	furrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 Chiron	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Chiron	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Chiron	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Chiron	amod
18	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 used	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 used	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Chiron	acl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 allow	mark
26	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	advcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 allow	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 harnessed	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 harnessed	aux:pass
30	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 allow	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 plow	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plow	det
33	plow	plow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 harnessed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Jason			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	draw	to-infinitive	Jason not said here	a furrow		by the good old Chiron	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furrow=Theme
4	use	participle · passive		the good old Chiron		perhaps property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	allow	to-infinitive			Jason		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	harness not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive				to the plow	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to plow=Co-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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