Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 13

Beholding them on the horizon, myself and all the people will know that you are coming back victorious, and will welcome you with such a festal uproar as Athens never heard before."

Who acts: myself, you, Athens · What happens: behold, know, come back, welcome, not hear · To what, where: sails, horizon, you · 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 (myself, you, Athens), 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	Beholding	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 know	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Beholding	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 horizon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horizon	det
5	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beholding	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 know	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 people	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 people	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 myself	conj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 coming	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 coming	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 coming	aux
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 know	ccomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 coming	advmod
19	victorious	victorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coming	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 welcome	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 welcome	cc
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 welcome	aux
23	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 welcome	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 uproar	case
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 uproar	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 uproar	det
28	festal	festal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 uproar	amod
29	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 welcome	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 heard	mark
31	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 heard	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 heard	advmod
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 welcome	advcl
34	before	before	ADV	_	33 heard	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	gerund		sails = sail	the horizon		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	know	future	myself				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come back	present · progressive	you			victorious property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	welcome	future	myself not said here	you		with such festal uproar	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	not hear	past	Athens			before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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