Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 36

At the same time, he belched forth a tremendous roar, in which there was something like the words of human language, but all disjointed and shaken to pieces by passing through the gullet of a miserably enraged brute.

Who acts: Minotaur · What happens: belch, disjoint, shake, pass, enrage, word · To what, where: tremendous roar, all, pieces, gullet, human language

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minotaur), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belched	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 belched	nsubj
7	belched	belch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 belched	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 roar	det
10	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roar	amod
11	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belched	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 was	obl
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 roar	acl:relcl
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 was	nsubj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 words	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 words	det
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 something	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 language	case
22	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 language	amod
23	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 words	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 disjointed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 disjointed	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 disjointed	nsubj:pass
27	disjointed	disjoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 belched	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shaken	cc
29	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 disjointed	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 pieces	case
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shaken	obl
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 passing	mark
33	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 shaken	advcl
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 gullet	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gullet	det
36	gullet	gullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 passing	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 brute	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 brute	det
39	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	40 enraged	advmod
40	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 brute	amod
41	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gullet	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 belched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belch	past	Minotaur	a tremendous roar		time	forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roar=Source
2	disjoint	participle · passive		all				tree rules
3	shake	participle			pieces			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to piece=Trajectory
4	pass	gerund			the gullet of a enraged brute			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gullet=Location
5	enrage	participle					miserably property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	word			human language				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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