Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 76
It is enough to say, that he quite cleared that part of the country of the robbers about whom King Pittheus had been so much alarmed.
Who acts: truth, Theseus · What happens: be, say, clear, alarm · To what, where: part, King · 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 (truth, Theseus), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enough | cop |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enough | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cleared | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 cleared | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cleared | nsubj |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 cleared | advmod |
| 10 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enough | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cleared | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 robbers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 robbers | det |
| 18 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 country | nmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 robbers | nmod |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | Pittheus | Pittheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | flat |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 alarmed | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 alarmed | advmod |
| 27 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 whom | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | truth | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | truth not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clear | past | Theseus | that part of the country of the robbers about the country of the robbers | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent part=Source | ||||
| 4 | alarm | past · perfect · passive | King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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