Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 39
The bulls have been tamed and yoked; the field has been plowed; the dragon's teeth have been sown broadcast, and harrowed into the soil; the crop of armed warriors have sprung up, and they have slain one another, to the last man.
Who acts: bulls · What happens: tame, yoke, plow, sow, harrow, spring up · To what, where: bulls, field, teeth, soil, crop, one
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 (bulls), 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 | 2 bulls | det |
| 2 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tamed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tamed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 tamed | aux:pass |
| 5 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 yoked | cc |
| 7 | yoked | yoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tamed | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 plowed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plowed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 plowed | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 plowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | plowed | plow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tamed | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sown | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sown | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 sown | aux:pass |
| 21 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plowed | conj |
| 22 | broadcast | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sown | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 harrowed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 harrowed | cc |
| 25 | harrowed | harrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sown | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 soil | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 soil | det |
| 28 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 harrowed | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 sprung | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 crop | det |
| 31 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 warriors | case |
| 33 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 warriors | amod |
| 34 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 crop | nmod |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sprung | aux |
| 36 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tamed | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 sprung | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 slain | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 slain | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 slain | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 slain | aux |
| 42 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 sprung | conj |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 slain | obj |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 one | fixed |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 man | punct |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 man | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 man | det |
| 48 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 man | amod |
| 49 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 slain | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | present · perfect · passive | the bulls | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | yoke | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | plow | present · perfect · passive | the field | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | sow | present · perfect · passive | the dragon's teeth | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | harrow | participle | the soil | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | spring up | present · perfect · passive | the crop of armed warriors | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | slay | present · perfect | bulls = bull | one | to the last man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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