Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 29
"It only remains for us, then, to decide whether we shall carry on the war in our national capacity--one united people against a common enemy--or whether some champion, famous in former fights, shall be selected to defy the slayer of our brother Antaeus to single combat.
Who acts: harangue, we · What happens: remain, decide, carry, select, defy · To what, where: war, champion, slayer
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 (harangue, 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 remains | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remains | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 remains | advmod |
| 4 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 remains | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decide | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 decide | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decide | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 decide | mark |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 remains | parataxis |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 carry | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | aux |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decide | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 war | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 war | det |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 capacity | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 capacity | nmod:poss |
| 21 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 capacity | amod |
| 22 | capacity | capacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 people | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 people | nummod |
| 25 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 capacity | nmod |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 enemy | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 enemy | det |
| 29 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 enemy | amod |
| 30 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 people | nmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 selected | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 selected | cc |
| 33 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 44 selected | mark |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 champion | det |
| 35 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 famous | punct |
| 37 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 champion | amod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 fights | case |
| 39 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fights | amod |
| 40 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 famous | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 champion | punct |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 selected | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 selected | aux:pass |
| 44 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 decide | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 defy | mark |
| 46 | defy | defy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 selected | xcomp |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 slayer | det |
| 48 | slayer | slayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 defy | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 brother | case |
| 50 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 brother | nmod:poss |
| 51 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 slayer | nmod |
| 52 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 brother | appos |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 combat | mark |
| 54 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 combat | amod |
| 55 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 Antaeus | appos |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain in a quote | present | harangue | for us | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decide in a quote | to-infinitive | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry not said to happen, in a quote | shall | we | the war | in our national capacity one united people against a common enemy | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in capacity=Location | |||
| 4 | select in a quote | shall · passive | some champion | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | defy in a quote | to-infinitive | the slayer of our brother | tree rules |
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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