Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 10
Now, being weighed down with infirmities, I know not whether I can survive till the vessel shall return.
Who acts: I, vessel · What happens: weigh down, not know, survive, return · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, vessel), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 weighed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 weighed | aux:pass |
| 4 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 weighed | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 infirmities | case |
| 7 | infirmities | infirmity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weighed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weighed | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 survive | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 survive | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 survive | aux |
| 15 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | ccomp |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 return | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vessel | det |
| 18 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 return | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 return | aux |
| 20 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 survive | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh down | gerund · passive | now | with infirmities | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value» | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | survive | can | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | shall | the vessel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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