Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 94

Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King Aegeus, who were the own cousins of Theseus, at once became his enemies.

Who acts: King Aegeus · What happens: be, become · To what, where: own cousins, enemies

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 (King Aegeus), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	6 nephews	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 nephews	det
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hearted	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bad	punct
5	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nephews	amod
6	nephews	nephew	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Aegeus	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Aegeus	compound
9	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nephews	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cousins	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cousins	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cousins	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cousins	det
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cousins	amod
15	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Aegeus	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Theseus	case
17	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cousins	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
19	at	at	SCONJ	_	21 became	mark
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 became	advmod
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nephews	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 enemies	nmod:poss
23	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 became	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nephews	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	King Aegeus and the own cousins	the own cousins				of Theseus	tree rules
2	become	past		Theseus's enemies				once property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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