Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 57
We declare bloody war against you, and will slay you on the spot."
Who acts: We · What happens: declare, slay · To what, where: bloody war, you, spot
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 declare | nsubj |
| 2 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 declare | obj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 declare | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slay | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 slay | aux |
| 10 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 declare | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 declare | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | We | bloody war | against you | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | |||
| 2 | slay | future | We not said here | you | the spot | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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