Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 80
Once or twice, if you will believe me, a little man was made chief ruler of the nation for no other merit in the world than bringing home such a feather.
Who acts: you · What happens: believe, make, bring · To what, where: me, little man, feather
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 believe | advmod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 twice | cc |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Once | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 believe | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 believe | aux |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 believe | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 believe | parataxis |
| 16 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ruler | amod |
| 17 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nation | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nation | det |
| 20 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruler | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 merit | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 merit | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 merit | amod |
| 24 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 merit | nmod |
| 28 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 bringing | mark |
| 29 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 made | advcl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 bringing | advmod |
| 31 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 feather | det:predet |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 feather | det |
| 33 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bringing | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | future | you | me | once property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | a little man | for no other merit in the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for merit=Asset | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | such feather | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent feather=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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