Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 75
I sue for peace, and, as a condition of it, will take five strides, and be out of your kingdom at the sixth.
Who acts: I, condition · What happens: sue, take, be, condition · To what, where: five strides, kingdom, peace
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 (I, condition), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sue | nsubj |
| 2 | sue | sue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 peace | case |
| 4 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sue | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 condition | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 condition | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 condition | det |
| 10 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 condition | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 condition | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sue | conj |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 strides | nummod |
| 17 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kingdom | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kingdom | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 kingdom | cop |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 sixth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sixth | det |
| 27 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kingdom | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sue | present | I | for peace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | future | a condition of peace | five strides | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | your kingdom | at the sixth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | condition | peace | nom condition «state transitive»: of=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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