Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 45
It was found necessary, therefore, to hit upon some other method of carrying on the war.
What happens: find, hit, carry · To what, where: duty, other method, war
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 therefore | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hit | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hit | mark |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 method | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 method | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 method | amod |
| 13 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 carrying | mark |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 method | advcl |
| 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 carrying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | duty | necessary, therefore property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hit | to-infinitive | some other method | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme method=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the war | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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