Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 92

If he were suffered to exist at all, it should have been on some desert island, or in the duskiness of some deep cavern, where nobody would ever be tormented by his abominable aspect.

Who acts: island, abominable aspect · What happens: suffer, exist, be, torment · To what, where: monster, all, desert island, nobody

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island, abominable aspect), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:250): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 suffered	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suffered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suffered	aux:pass
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 island	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 exist	mark
6	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 suffered	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 exist	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 suffered	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 island	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 island	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 island	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 island	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 island	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 island	det
16	desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 island	amod
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 duskiness	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 duskiness	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 duskiness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 duskiness	det
22	duskiness	duskiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 island	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 cavern	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 cavern	det
25	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cavern	amod
26	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 duskiness	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tormented	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 tormented	advmod
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 tormented	nsubj:pass
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tormented	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 tormented	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 tormented	aux:pass
33	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 cavern	acl:relcl
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 aspect	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 aspect	nmod:poss
36	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 aspect	amod
37	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tormented	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 island	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	suffer a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		monster			tree rules
2	exist	to-infinitive			all		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
3	is	should · perfect	island		some desert island or the duskiness of some deep cavern		tree rules
4	torment	would · passive	monster's abominable aspect	nobody		ever	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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