Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 12

Here the Pygmies used to plant wheat and other kinds of grain, which, when it grew up and ripened, overshadowed these tiny people as the pines, and the oaks, and the walnut and chestnut trees overshadow you and me, when we walk in our own tracts of woodland.

Who acts: Pygmies, wheat, walnut, we · What happens: use, plant, grow up, ripen, overshadow, walk · To what, where: oaks, wheat, you, own tracts

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 (Pygmies, wheat, walnut, we), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 used	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pygmies	det
3	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 plant	mark
6	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kinds	cc
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kinds	amod
10	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wheat	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 grain	case
12	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kinds	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 grew	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 grew	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wheat	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 grew	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ripened	cc
21	ripened	ripen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 grew	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 overshadowed	punct
23	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ripened	conj
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 people	det
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 overshadowed	obl:agent
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 pines	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pines	det
29	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 overshadowed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 oaks	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 oaks	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 oaks	det
33	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 overshadow	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 overshadow	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 walnut	det
37	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 overshadow	nsubj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 trees	cc
39	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trees	compound
40	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 walnut	conj
41	overshadow	overshadow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	parataxis
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 overshadow	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 me	cc
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 you	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 walk	punct
46	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 walk	mark
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 walk	nsubj
48	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 overshadow	conj
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 tracts	case
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 tracts	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tracts	amod
52	tracts	tract	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 walk	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 woodland	case
54	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tracts	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	the Pygmies	the oaks	here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	plant	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	wheat and other kinds of grain			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient
3	grow up	past	wheat and other kinds of grain				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ripen	participle	wheat and other kinds of grain not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	overshadow	participle	wheat and other kinds of grain not said here			as the pines	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	overshadow	present	the walnut and chestnut trees	you			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	walk	present	we		our own tracts of woodland		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tract=Trajectory

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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