Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 91

You must understand that the father of Theseus, though not very old in years, was almost worn out with the cares of government, and had thus grown aged before his time.

Who acts: You, government · What happens: understand, wear out, grow, age, care · To what, where: father

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, government), 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 understand	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 worn	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worn	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Theseus	case
8	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 old	mark
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 old	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 old	advmod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 old	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 worn	aux:pass
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 worn	advmod
19	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 understand	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 worn	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 cares	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cares	det
23	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 worn	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 government	case
25	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cares	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grown	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grown	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grown	aux
29	thus	thus	ADV	_	30 grown	advmod
30	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 worn	conj
31	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 grown	xcomp
32	before	before	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 time	nmod:poss
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 aged	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	must	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wear out	past · passive		the father of Theseus		with the cares of government; almost property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	grow	past · perfect				thus property	tree rules
4	age	participle			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	care		government				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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