Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 8
Conquer or die!" and a hundred other outcries, such as men always bellow forth on a battle field, and which these dragon people seemed to have at their tongues' ends.
Who acts: you, hundred other outcries, people · What happens: conquer, die, bellow, dragon, seem, have · To what, where: battle field, dragon, ends
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, hundred other outcries, people), 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 | Conquer | conquer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 die | cc |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Conquer | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Conquer | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Conquer | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 outcries | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hundred | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 outcries | nummod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 outcries | amod |
| 10 | outcries | outcry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Conquer | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bellow | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 men | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bellow | obl |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 bellow | advmod |
| 16 | bellow | bellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 outcries | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 bellow | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 field | det |
| 20 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 field | compound |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bellow | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dragon | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dragon | cc |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dragon | nsubj |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 outcries | appos |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 ends | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 33 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ends | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 tongues | case |
| 35 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 have | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Conquer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | imperative | you not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bellow in a quote | present | you not said here | a battle field | such men; always, forth property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Location | |||
| 4 | dragon in a quote | hundred other outcries | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | seem in a quote | past | people | this dragon not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | people not said here | at people's tongues's ends | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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