Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 26

You must possess far more strength than now before I can trust you to go to Athens, and tell King Aegeus that you are his son.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: possess, trust, go, tell, be · To what, where: more strength, you, Athens, King, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 possess	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 possess	aux
3	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 strength	amod
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possess	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 now	case
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 possess	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 trust	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 trust	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 trust	aux
12	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 possess	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 trust	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trust	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Athens	case
17	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 possess	parataxis
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tell	iobj
22	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 King	flat
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 son	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 son	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 son	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 possess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	possess	must	You	more strength			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme
2	trust	can	I	you			tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	I not said here			Athens	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to athens=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
5	is a	present	you	King's son			tree rules

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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