Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 80
It is a matter of state policy, and therefore quite beyond thy weak comprehension.
Who acts: It, thy · What happens: be, comprehend · To what, where: matter
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 (It, thy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matter | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 matter | det |
| 4 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 policy | case |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 policy | compound |
| 7 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comprehension | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 comprehension | cc |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 quite | advmod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 comprehension | advmod |
| 12 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 comprehension | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 comprehension | nmod:poss |
| 14 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 comprehension | amod |
| 15 | comprehension | comprehension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a matter and thy weak comprehension | of state policy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | comprehend | thy | nom comprehension «cognition transitive»: poss=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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