Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 37

Some say, indeed, that this Talus was hammered out for King Minos by Vulcan himself, the skilfullest of all workers in metal.

Who acts: Some, Vulcan · What happens: say, hammer out · To what, where: Talus · 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 (Some, Vulcan), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hammered	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 hammered	mark
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 Talus	det
8	Talus	Talus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hammered	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hammered	aux:pass
10	hammered	hammer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 hammered	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 Minos	case
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Minos	compound
14	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hammered	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 Vulcan	case
16	Vulcan	Vulcan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hammered	obl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 Vulcan	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 skilfullest	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 skilfullest	det
20	skilfullest	skilfull	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 Vulcan	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 workers	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 workers	det
23	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 skilfullest	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 metal	case
25	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 workers	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some					indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hammer out	past · passive	Vulcan Talus	this Talus				for King Minos	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Product for minos=Beneficiary

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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