Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 53

He heaved, he lifted, he resolved now to succeed, or else to perish there, and let the rock be his monument forever!

Who acts: Theseus, rock · What happens: heave, lift, resolve, succeed, perish, let · To what, where: rock, monument

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 (Theseus, rock), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heaved	nsubj
2	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lifted	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lifted	nsubj
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heaved	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 resolved	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 resolved	nsubj
8	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	conj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 resolved	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 succeed	mark
11	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 resolved	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 perish	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 perish	cc
14	else	else	ADV	_	16 perish	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 perish	mark
16	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 heaved	parataxis
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 perish	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 perish	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rock	det
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obj
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 monument	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 monument	nmod:poss
25	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	xcomp
26	forever	forever	ADV	_	20 let	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 heaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heave	past	Theseus					vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lift	past	Theseus					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	resolve	past	Theseus			now		tree rules
4	succeed	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	perish	to-infinitive			there		else property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	let	infinitive		the rock			forever property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
7	is a	infinitive	the rock not said here	Theseus's monument				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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