Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 56
You have killed the Giant Antaeus, our great brother, and the ally of our nation.
What happens: kill · To what, where: You
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Antaeus | det |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Antaeus | amod |
| 6 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brother | punct |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Antaeus | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ally | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ally | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ally | det |
| 14 | ally | ally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nation | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nation | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ally | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect · passive | You | the Giant Antaeus obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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