Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 28
He bowed, and, making a gesture for silence, wound up his harangue in the following admirable manner:
Who acts: glory · What happens: bow, make, wound up, follow, harangue · To what, where: gesture, harangue, admirable manner
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 (glory), 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 | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wound | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wound | cc |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wound | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gesture | det |
| 8 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 silence | case |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 12 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bowed | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 wound | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 harangue | nmod:poss |
| 15 | harangue | harangue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wound | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 manner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 manner | det |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 manner | case |
| 19 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 manner | amod |
| 20 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wound | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | glory | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a gesture | for silence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent gesture=Product for silence=Asset | ||||
| 3 | wound up | infinitive | glory not said here | glory's harangue | the admirable manner | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus harangue=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | harangue | glory | nom harangue «communication 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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