Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 87
You will remember (what Theseus unfortunately forgot) that his father, King Aegeus, had enjoined it upon him to hoist sunshiny sails, instead of black ones, in case he should overcome the Minotaur, and return victorious.
Who acts: You, Theseus, father · What happens: remember, forget, enjoin, hoist, overcome, return · To what, where: misfortune, sunshiny sails, Minotaur · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Theseus, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | aux |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgot | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 forgot | obj |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | nsubj |
| 7 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 8 forgot | advmod |
| 8 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | ccomp |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgot | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 enjoined | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enjoined | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 King | punct |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 father | appos |
| 15 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 father | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enjoined | aux |
| 18 | enjoined | enjoin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 forgot | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enjoined | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enjoined | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hoist | mark |
| 23 | hoist | hoist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 enjoined | advcl |
| 24 | sunshiny | sunshiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sails | amod |
| 25 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hoist | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ones | punct |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 30 ones | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instead | fixed |
| 29 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ones | amod |
| 30 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sails | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 overcome | punct |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 overcome | mark |
| 33 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 in | fixed |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 overcome | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 overcome | aux |
| 36 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hoist | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Minotaur | det |
| 38 | Minotaur | Minotaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 overcome | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 return | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 return | cc |
| 41 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 42 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 return | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | future | You | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forget | past | Theseus | unfortunately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoin | past · perfect | Theseus's father | misfortune | upon Theseus | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hoist | to-infinitive | Theseus's father not said here | sunshiny sails and black ones | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme | ||||
| 5 | overcome | should | father | the Minotaur | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot minotaur=Theme | ||||
| 6 | return | infinitive | victorious property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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