Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 31

And believe me, dear countrymen, whether I live or die, the honor of this great country, and the fame bequeathed us by our heroic progenitors, shall suffer no diminution in my hands.

Who acts: you, I, fame · What happens: believe, live, die, bequeath, suffer, honor · To what, where: me, honor, us, diminution, hands, great country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I, fame), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 believe	cc
2	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 believe	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 countrymen	punct
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countrymen	amod
6	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 me	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 live	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 live	nsubj
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 believe	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
12	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 live	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 honor	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 honor	det
15	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 live	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 country	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 country	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 country	amod
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 honor	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bequeathed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bequeathed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fame	det
23	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bequeathed	nsubj
24	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 live	parataxis
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bequeathed	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 progenitors	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 progenitors	nmod:poss
28	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 progenitors	amod
29	progenitors	progenitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bequeathed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 suffer	punct
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 suffer	aux
32	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bequeathed	conj
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 diminution	det
34	diminution	diminution	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 suffer	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hands	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hands	nmod:poss
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 suffer	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here		me			tree rules
2	live	present	I	the honor of this great country				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	I not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	bequeath	past	the fame	us			by our heroic progenitors	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	suffer	shall	the fame not said here	no diminution		my hands		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diminution=Stimulus
6	honor			this great country				nom honor «communication 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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