Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 59

Unless you set sail from Colchis before to-morrow's sunrise, the king means to burn your fifty-oared galley, and put yourself and your forty-nine brave comrades to the sword.

Who acts: you, king · What happens: set, mean, burn, oar, put · To what, where: sail, Colchis, oared galley, yourself

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 (you, king), 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	Unless	unless	SCONJ	_	3 set	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	advcl
4	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Colchis	case
6	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	12 sunrise	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 morrow	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunrise	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 morrow	case
12	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 burn	mark
18	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 means	xcomp
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 galley	nmod:poss
20	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 oared	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 fifty	punct
22	oared	oar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 galley	amod
23	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burn	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 means	conj
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 put	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 comrades	cc
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 comrades	nmod:poss
30	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 nine	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 forty	punct
32	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 comrades	nummod
33	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 comrades	amod
34	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 yourself	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 sword	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sword	det
37	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set a condition, not said to happen	present	you	sail	Colchis	sunrise		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result
2	mean	present	the king					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	your oared galley				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent galley=Theme
4	oar	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	put	infinitive	the king not said here	yourself			to the sword	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yourself=Goal

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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