Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 56

Speak, you vagabond, or I'll try the thickness of your skull with my walking-stick!"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, vagabond, try · To what, where: thickness · 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 (you, I), 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	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 vagabond	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 vagabond	nsubj
4	vagabond	vagabond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 try	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 try	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 try	aux
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 vagabond	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thickness	det
11	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 skull	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skull	nmod:poss
14	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thickness	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 stick	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stick	nmod:poss
17	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stick	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 walking	punct
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vagabond	present	you			tree rules
3	try	future	I	the thickness of your skull	with my walking stick	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thickness=Patient with stick=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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