Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 24
So that, while one skeleton shall remain as the everlasting monument of our sorrow, the other shall endure as long, exhibiting to the whole human race a terrible example of Pygmy vengeance!
Who acts: one skeleton, other, our · What happens: remain, endure, exhibit, sorrow, exemplify · To what, where: terrible example, whole human race, Pygmy vengeance
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 (one skeleton, other, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 remain | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 So | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remain | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 remain | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 skeleton | nummod |
| 6 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remain | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remain | aux |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 monument | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monument | det |
| 11 | everlasting | everlasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monument | amod |
| 12 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remain | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sorrow | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 monument | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 endure | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 endure | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 endure | aux |
| 20 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 remain | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 endure | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 exhibiting | punct |
| 24 | exhibiting | exhibit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 endure | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 race | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 race | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 race | amod |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 race | amod |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 exhibiting | obl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 example | det |
| 31 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 example | amod |
| 32 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 exhibiting | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 vengeance | case |
| 34 | Pygmy | pygmy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 vengeance | amod |
| 35 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 example | nmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | shall | one skeleton | as the everlasting monument of our sorrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | endure | shall | the other | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exhibit | gerund | the other not said here | a terrible example of Pygmy vengeance | the whole human race | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent example=Theme to race=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sorrow | our | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | exemplify | Pygmy vengeance | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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