Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 29
As I told you, a long while ago, they once upheld the sky.
Who acts: I, truth · What happens: tell, uphold · To what, where: you, sky · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, truth), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 told | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 upheld | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ago | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 while | amod |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 upheld | nsubj |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 upheld | advmod |
| 13 | upheld | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 upheld | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 upheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | I | you | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | uphold | past | truth | the sky | once property | 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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