Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 99

"Let the people of Athens this year draw lots for only six young men, instead of seven," said he, "I will myself be the seventh; and let the Minotaur devour me if he can!"

Who acts: man, Minotaur · What happens: let, say, be, devour · To what, where: draw lots, people, Minotaur, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, Minotaur), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Let	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Athens	case
6	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 lots	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	compound
9	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lots	compound
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Let	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 men	case
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 six	advmod
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Let	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seven	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 seven	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Let	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seven	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seventh	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 seventh	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 seventh	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 seventh	aux
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 seventh	nsubj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 seventh	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 seventh	det
31	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
34	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Minotaur	det
36	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 let	obj
37	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 let	xcomp
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 devour	obj
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 can	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 can	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 devour	advcl
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		this draw lots	the people of Athens	for six young men	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent people=Recipient lot=Theme for man=Asset
2	say speech: express	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	future	man			seventh property	tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive		the Minotaur			tree rules
5	devour in a quote	infinitive	the Minotaur not said here	man			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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