Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 9

The men and women over whom he rules are in the place of children to him; and he can seldom spare time to love his own children as other parents do.

Who acts: men, man, other parents · What happens: be, spare, love, do · To what, where: place, own children

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 (men, man, other parents), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 place	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 women	cc
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	conj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 whom	case
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 men	acl:relcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 whom	nsubj
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 he	nmod:unmarked
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 place	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 children	case
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 place	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 children	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 spare	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spare	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spare	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 spare	aux
21	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	22 spare	advmod
22	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 place	parataxis
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spare	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 love	mark
25	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spare	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 children	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 children	amod
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 love	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 do	mark
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 parents	amod
31	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 do	nsubj
32	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 love	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the men and women		the place		of children to son	tree rules
2	spare	can	man			time	seldom property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
3	love	to-infinitive	man not said here	son's own children				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	do	present	other parents					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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