Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 21
Were we to drown the world with them, could the world blame us?
Who acts: we, world · What happens: drown, blame · To what, where: world, us
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 (we, world), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drown | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 drown | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 drown | mark |
| 4 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drown | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drown | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blame | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 blame | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blame | nsubj |
| 13 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drown | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blame | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | we | the world | with tears = tear | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent world=Patient with they=Instrument | |||
| 2 | blame | could | the world | us | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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