Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 65

We are determined to put you to death; and for my own part, I challenge you to instant battle, on equal ground."

Who acts: We, I · What happens: be, put, challenge · To what, where: you, equal ground

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, I), 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	3 determined	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	cop
3	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 determined	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 challenge	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 challenge	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 part	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 part	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 challenge	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 part	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 challenge	nsubj
17	challenge	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 challenge	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 battle	case
20	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 battle	amod
21	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 challenge	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ground	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ground	amod
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 challenge	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 determined	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	We				determined property	tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive	We not said here		you		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal
3	challenge	present	I	you		equal ground	for my own part; to instant battle	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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