Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 92
His nephews, not expecting him to live a very great while, intended to get all the power of the kingdom into their own hands.
Who acts: nephews, Theseus · What happens: not expect, live, intend, get · To what, where: Theseus, power, own hands
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 (nephews, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nephews | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nephews | nephew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 expecting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expecting | advmod |
| 5 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expecting | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expecting | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 while | amod |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intended | punct |
| 14 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 expecting | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 intended | xcomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 power | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | nmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hands | amod |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | gerund | Theseus's nephews | Theseus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | Theseus not said here | while | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intend | participle | Theseus's nephews not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Theseus's nephews not said here | all power of the kingdom | nephews's own hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |
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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