Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 22
"But to resume: Shall we, my countrymen, suffer this wicked stranger to depart unharmed, and triumph in his treacherous victory, among distant communities of the earth?
Who acts: we · What happens: resume, suffer, depart · To what, where: triumph, wicked stranger
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), 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 | _ | 4 resume | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 resume | cc |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 resume | mark |
| 4 | resume | resume | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 resume | punct |
| 6 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffer | aux |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 suffer | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 countrymen | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 10 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 we | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffer | punct |
| 12 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 resume | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 stranger | det |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stranger | amod |
| 15 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffer | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 depart | mark |
| 17 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 suffer | advcl |
| 18 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 depart | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 triumph | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 triumph | cc |
| 21 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resume | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 victory | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 victory | nmod:poss |
| 24 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 victory | amod |
| 25 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 triumph | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 communities | punct |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 29 communities | case |
| 28 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 communities | amod |
| 29 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 resume | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 earth | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 earth | det |
| 32 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 communities | nmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 resume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume in a quote | to-infinitive | triumph in world's treacherous victory | among distant communities of the earth | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | suffer in a quote | shall | we | this wicked stranger | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | depart in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | unharmed property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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