Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 9
"Great sir," replied Jason, with an obeisance--for Chiron had taught him how to behave with propriety, whether to kings or beggars--"I have come hither with a purpose which I now beg your majesty's permission to execute.
Who acts: Jason, I, majesty · What happens: reply, teach, behave, come, beg, execute · To what, where: Chiron, Jason, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jason, I, majesty), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sir | amod |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obeisance | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 obeisance | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 obeisance | det |
| 11 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 taught | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 taught | mark |
| 14 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taught | aux |
| 16 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 taught | obj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 behave | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 behave | mark |
| 20 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 taught | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 propriety | case |
| 22 | propriety | propriety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 behave | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 kings | case |
| 26 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 come | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 beggars | cc |
| 28 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kings | conj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 kings | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 taught | conj |
| 34 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 33 come | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 purpose | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 purpose | det |
| 37 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 beg | obj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 beg | nsubj |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 beg | advmod |
| 41 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 purpose | acl:relcl |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 43 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 permission | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 majesty | case |
| 45 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 beg | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 execute | mark |
| 47 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 permission | acl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Jason | with a obeisance | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with obeisance=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Chiron | Jason | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | behave | to-infinitive | with propriety | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | I | to kings or beggars; with a purpose; hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | I | a purpose | now | tree rules | |||
| 6 | execute in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | permit in a quote | your majesty | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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