Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 94

A few years before this time, there had been a war between the city of Athens and the island of Crete, in which the Athenians were beaten, and compelled to beg for peace.

Who acts: few years · What happens: be, beat, compel, beg · To what, where: war, Athenians

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 (few years), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 war	nsubj
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 been	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 been	expl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 been	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 war	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 war	det
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 war	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Athens	case
17	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 city	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 island	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 city	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Crete	case
22	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 island	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beaten	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 beaten	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Athenians	det
27	Athenians	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 beaten	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 beaten	aux:pass
29	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 war	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 compelled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 compelled	cc
32	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 beaten	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 beg	mark
34	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 compelled	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 peace	case
36	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beg	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 war	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	participle	a few years before this time	a war	between the city of Athens and the island of Crete	tree rules
2	beat	past · passive		the Athenians	in a war	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in which=Topic
3	compel	participle				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			for peace	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for peace=Topic

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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