Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 23
Shall we not rather compel him to leave his bones here on our soil, by the side of our slain brother's bones?
Who acts: we, our · What happens: not compel, leave, soil · To what, where: world, bones, soil
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, our), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 compel | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 compel | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 compel | advmod |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 compel | advmod |
| 5 | compel | compel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 compel | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 compel | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 leave | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 soil | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soil | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bones | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brother | amod |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bones | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 24 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 side | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 compel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not compel | shall | we | world | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | we not said here | world's bones | our soil; here | by the side of our slain brother's bones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme on soil=Location | ||
| 3 | soil | our | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=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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