Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 1

A great while ago, when the world was full of wonders, there lived an earth-born Giant, named Antaeus, and a million or more of curious little earth-born people, who were called Pygmies.

Who acts: world · What happens: be, live, bear, name, call · To what, where: an, curious little born people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 full	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 full	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 full	cop
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wonders	case
12	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 lived	expl
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 full	conj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 born	nsubj:pass
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 born	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 earth	punct
19	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lived	ccomp
20	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 born	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 named	punct
22	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 born	conj
23	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 named	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 million	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 million	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 million	det
27	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 born	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 more	cc
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 million	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	36 people	case
31	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 born	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 earth	punct
35	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 more	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 called	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 called	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 called	aux:pass
40	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 people	acl:relcl
41	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 called	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the world			of wonders; ago, full property	tree rules
2	live	past	the world not said here		there		tree rules
3	bear	participle · passive		an		a million obl; giant property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	name	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	call	past · passive		curious little born people			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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