Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 23

Bestir yourself, you lazy old Giant!

Who acts: you · What happens: bestir · To what, where: yourself

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. 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	Bestir	bestir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Bestir	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Giant	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 Giant	nsubj
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Giant	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Giant	amod
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bestir	parataxis
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Bestir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestir	imperative	you not said here	yourself					tree rules

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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