Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 80
Another of these robbers, named Scinis, must likewise have been a very great scoundrel.
Who acts: Another · What happens: name, be · To what, where: robbers, great scoundrel
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 (Another), 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 | Another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 16 scoundrel | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 robbers | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 robbers | det |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Another | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 named | punct |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 robbers | acl |
| 7 | Scinis | Scinis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 named | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Scinis | punct |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 scoundrel | aux |
| 10 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 16 scoundrel | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 scoundrel | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 scoundrel | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scoundrel | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 scoundrel | amod |
| 16 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 scoundrel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | this robbers not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must · perfect | Another | a great scoundrel | likewise property | 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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