Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 6
You and all of us have seen what a public calamity has been brought to pass, and what an insult has here been offered to the majesty of our nation.
What happens: see, bring, pass, offer · To what, where: You, public calamity, insult
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 | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seen | cc |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 brought | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 calamity | det |
| 10 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 calamity | amod |
| 11 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seen | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pass | mark |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 brought | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 offered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 offered | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 offered | obj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 insult | det |
| 21 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 offered | aux |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 offered | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 offered | aux:pass |
| 25 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seen | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 majesty | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 majesty | det |
| 28 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offered | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 nation | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 nation | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 majesty | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect · passive | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | a public calamity | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | offer | present · perfect · passive | a insult | here | to the majesty of our nation | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal what=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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