Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 20

The last survivor, the bravest and strongest of the whole, had just force enough to wave his crimson sword over his head and give a shout of exultation, crying, "Victory!

Who acts: last survivor · What happens: have, wave, give, cry, shout · To what, where: force, crimson sword, head, shout, Victory, exultation

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last survivor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 survivor	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 survivor	amod
3	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strongest	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strongest	det
6	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 strongest	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strongest	cc
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 survivor	acl:relcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 whole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whole	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strongest	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 survivor	punct
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 force	advmod
15	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wave	mark
18	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sword	nmod:poss
20	crimson	crimson	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sword	amod
21	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wave	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wave	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wave	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shout	det
28	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 exultation	case
30	exultation	exultation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shout	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crying	punct
32	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 give	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Victory	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Victory	punct
35	Victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crying	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the last survivor	force		enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient
2	wave	to-infinitive	the last survivor not said here	survivor's crimson sword	survivor's head		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
3	give	infinitive	the last survivor not said here	a shout of exultation			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the last survivor not said here	Victory			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Topic
5	shout			exultation			nom shout «communication 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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