Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 10
"Antaeus was our brother, born of that same beloved parent to whom we owe the thews and sinews, as well as the courageous hearts, which made him proud of our relationship.
Who acts: Antaeus, brother, we, courageous hearts · What happens: be, bear, owe, make · To what, where: brother, courageous hearts, thews, Antaeus
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antaeus, brother, we, courageous hearts), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Antaeus | punct |
| 2 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | cop |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brother | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 parent | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 parent | nsubj |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parent | amod |
| 11 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parent | amod |
| 12 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 parent | nmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 owe | nsubj |
| 16 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thews | det |
| 18 | thews | thew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 owe | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sinews | cc |
| 20 | sinews | sinew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thews | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hearts | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 27 hearts | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hearts | det |
| 26 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hearts | amod |
| 27 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 born | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hearts | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | obj |
| 32 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 made | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 relationship | case |
| 34 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 relationship | nmod:poss |
| 35 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 proud | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Antaeus | our brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | participle | our brother not said here | the courageous hearts | of same beloved parent | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | owe in a quote | present | we | the thews and sinews | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thew=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | past | the courageous hearts | Antaeus | proud property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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