Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 11
He was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much for our national rights and immunities as for his own personal ones.
Who acts: Antaeus, faithful ally · What happens: be, fall, fight · To what, where: faithful ally
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, faithful ally), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ally | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ally | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ally | nmod:poss |
| 4 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ally | amod |
| 5 | ally | ally | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ally | acl:relcl |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fell | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 fighting | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 rights | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rights | nmod:poss |
| 14 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rights | amod |
| 15 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fighting | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 immunities | cc |
| 17 | immunities | immunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rights | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 fighting | fixed |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 ones | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ones | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ones | amod |
| 22 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ones | amod |
| 23 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fighting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ally | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Antaeus | our faithful ally | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | our faithful ally not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | our faithful ally not said here | for our national rights and immunities; for Antaeus's own personal ones | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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