Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 36

There was a debate whether the national honor did not demand that a herald should be sent with a trumpet, to stand over the ear of Hercules, and after blowing a blast right into it, to defy him to the combat by formal proclamation.

Who acts: debate, national honor · What happens: be, not demand, send, stand, blow, defy · To what, where: herald, ear, blast, Hercules · 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 (debate, national honor), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 debate	det
4	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 demand	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 honor	det
7	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honor	amod
8	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demand	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 demand	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 demand	advmod
11	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 sent	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 herald	det
14	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	aux:pass
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 demand	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 trumpet	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 trumpet	det
20	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stand	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stand	mark
23	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 demand	parataxis
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 ear	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ear	det
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stand	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Hercules	case
28	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ear	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 defy	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 defy	cc
31	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 blowing	mark
32	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 defy	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 blast	det
34	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blowing	obj
35	right	right	ADV	_	37 it	advmod
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 blowing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 defy	punct
39	to	to	PART	_	40 defy	mark
40	defy	defy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 stand	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 defy	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 combat	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 combat	det
44	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 defy	obl
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 proclamation	case
46	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 proclamation	amod
47	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 defy	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a debate		there		tree rules
2	not demand speech: request	past · do-support	the national honor				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	send	should · passive		a herald		with a trumpet	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	stand	to-infinitive			the ear of Hercules		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over ear=Location
5	blow	gerund		a blast	herald		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent blast=Material into it=Product
6	defy	to-infinitive		Hercules		to the combat; by formal proclamation	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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