Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 39

And, on the other hand, what living thing, unless his sinews were made of brass, would not be weary of marching eighteen hundred miles in the twenty-four hours, as Talus does, without ever sitting down to rest?

Who acts: other hand, living thing, Talus · What happens: live, thing, make, not be, march, do · To what, where: sinews, hundred miles

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 (other hand, living thing, Talus), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 hand	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 thing	nsubj
9	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	16 made	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sinews	nmod:poss
14	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux:pass
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thing	acl:relcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 brass	case
18	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weary	punct
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 weary	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 weary	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 weary	cop
23	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	parataxis
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 marching	mark
25	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 weary	advcl
26	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hundred	compound
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 miles	nummod
28	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 marching	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	34 hours	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hours	det
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 four	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 twenty	punct
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 hours	nummod
34	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 marching	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 does	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 does	mark
37	Talus	Talus	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 does	nsubj
38	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 weary	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sitting	punct
40	without	without	SCONJ	_	42 sitting	mark
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 sitting	advmod
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 does	advcl
43	down	down	ADV	_	42 sitting	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 rest	mark
45	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sitting	advcl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thing		the other hand				tree rules
3	make a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	living thing not said here	Crete's sinews		of brass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	not is	would				weary property	tree rules
5	march	gerund		hundred miles	hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory
6	do	present	Talus				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sit down	gerund	Talus not said here		ever	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	rest	to-infinitive	Talus not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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