Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 80

For once, Hercules acknowledges himself vanquished."

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: acknowledge, vanquish

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 (Hercules), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 acknowledges	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 once	punct
4	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 acknowledges	nsubj
5	acknowledges	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 vanquished	nsubj
7	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 acknowledges	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 acknowledges	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 acknowledges	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	present	Hercules						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	vanquish	past	Hercules						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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