Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 4
Then they began to shout--"Show us the enemy!
Who acts: warriors · What happens: begin, shout, show · To what, where: enemy, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (warriors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:2189): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 shout | mark |
| 5 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Show | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Show | punct |
| 8 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 shout | parataxis |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Show | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 enemy | det |
| 11 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Show | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | warriors = warrior | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | to-infinitive | warriors = warrior not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | infinitive | the enemy | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient enemy=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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