Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 67

But thou, King Minos, art thou not thyself appalled, who, year after year, hast perpetrated this dreadful wrong, by giving seven innocent youths and as many maidens to be devoured by a monster?

Who acts: thyself, monster · What happens: not appal, have, perpetrate, give, devour · To what, where: perpetrated dreadful wrong, seven innocent youths

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 (thyself, monster), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 art	cc
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 art	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thou	punct
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Minos	compound
5	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thou	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thou	punct
7	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 art	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 appalled	advmod
10	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	11 appalled	nsubj
11	appalled	appal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 art	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hast	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hast	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 year	punct
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 who	appos
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 year	case
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 year	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
19	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 appalled	conj
20	perpetrated	perpetrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wrong	amod
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 wrong	det
22	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wrong	amod
23	wrong	wrong	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hast	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 giving	punct
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 giving	mark
26	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 hast	advcl
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 youths	nummod
28	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 youths	amod
29	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 giving	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 maidens	cc
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 maidens	amod
33	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 youths	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	36 devoured	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 devoured	aux:pass
36	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 giving	advcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 monster	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 monster	det
39	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 devoured	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 art	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not appal	past	thyself		tree rules
2	have	present		this perpetrated dreadful wrong	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Patient
3	perpetrate	participle			tree rules
4	give	gerund		seven innocent youths and many maidens	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme
5	devour	to-infinitive · passive	a monster		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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