Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 32

Never, while I can wield this sword, of which I now fling away the scabbard--never, never, never, even if the crimson hand that slew the great Antaeus shall lay me prostrate, like him, on the soil which I give my life to defend."

Who acts: I, crimson hand, great Antaeus · What happens: not wield, fling away, not slay, lay, give, defend · To what, where: sword, scabbard, me, soil

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, crimson hand, great Antaeus), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wield	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 wield	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wield	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wield	aux
6	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sword	det
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wield	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fling	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fling	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fling	nsubj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fling	advmod
14	fling	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wield	conj
15	away	away	ADP	_	14 fling	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 scabbard	det
17	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fling	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 slew	punct
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 slew	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slew	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 slew	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slew	punct
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 slew	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slew	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	31 slew	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 slew	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hand	det
28	crimson	crimson	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hand	amod
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slew	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 slew	nsubj
31	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wield	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Antaeus	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Antaeus	amod
34	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 lay	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	aux
36	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 slew	advcl
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lay	obj
38	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lay	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 him	punct
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 soil	punct
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 soil	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 soil	det
45	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 give	obj
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 give	nsubj
48	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 soil	acl:relcl
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 life	nmod:poss
50	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 give	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 defend	mark
52	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 give	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wield	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wield	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wield	can	I	this sword				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2	fling away	present	I	the scabbard		now		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scabbard=Theme of which=Initial_Location
3	not slay a condition, not said to happen	past	the crimson hand					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lay	shall	the great Antaeus	me	the soil		prostrate property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on soil=Destination
5	give	present	I	the soil				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient life=Theme
6	defend	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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