Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 88

Since I've broken your pine tree, we'll try which is the better man at a wrestling match."

Who acts: I, we · What happens: break, try, be · To what, where: pine tree, better man, wrestling match

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, we), 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	4 broken	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 broken	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 try	advcl
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tree	nmod:poss
6	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 broken	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 try	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 man	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 man	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 match	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 match	det
19	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 match	compound
20	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	break	present · perfect	I	your pine tree		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Patient
2	try	future	we			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present		the better man	a wrestling match	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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