Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 30
In the latter case, though not unconscious that there may be taller men among you, I hereby offer myself for that enviable duty.
Who acts: I · What happens: offer · To what, where: myself
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 (I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 case | det |
| 3 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 case | amod |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unconscious | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 unconscious | mark |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 unconscious | advmod |
| 8 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 case | appos |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 be | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 be | expl |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 unconscious | advcl |
| 13 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 be | nsubj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 be | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 offer | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 offer | nsubj |
| 19 | hereby | hereby | ADV | _ | 20 offer | advmod |
| 20 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 unconscious | parataxis |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 offer | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 duty | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 duty | det |
| 24 | enviable | enviable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 duty | amod |
| 25 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | I | myself | for that enviable duty goal; hereby property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent myself=Theme for duty=Goal |
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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