Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 70
My father is old, and has nobody but myself to love him.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, have, love · To what, where: nobody, father
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 (father), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | parataxis |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 has | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 myself | cc |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 nobody | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 love | mark |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nobody | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 love | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My father | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | nobody | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient | |||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | father | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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