Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 2

This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother (that is to say, our good old Grandmother Earth), were all brethren, and dwelt together in a very friendly and affectionate manner, far, far off, in the middle of hot Africa.

Who acts: Pygmies, that · What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: children, friendly manner

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, that), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Giant	nsubj
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 children	cc
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 Pygmies	det
5	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 children	nsubj
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 children	cop
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Giant	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 mother	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 children	nmod
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 say	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mother	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Earth	punct
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Earth	nmod:poss
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Earth	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Earth	amod
21	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Earth	compound
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 say	ccomp
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 Earth	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brethren	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brethren	cop
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 brethren	advmod
27	brethren	brethren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dwelt	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dwelt	cc
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brethren	conj
31	together	together	ADV	_	30 dwelt	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	38 manner	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 manner	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 friendly	advmod
35	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 manner	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 affectionate	cc
37	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 friendly	conj
38	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dwelt	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 far	punct
40	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 dwelt	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 off	punct
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 off	advmod
43	off	off	ADV	_	40 far	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 middle	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 middle	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 middle	det
47	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dwelt	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 Africa	case
49	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Africa	amod
50	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 middle	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Giant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	this Pygmies	children		of the same mother	tree rules
2	is	present	that			say property	tree rules
3	is	past				all, brethren property	tree rules
4	dwell	past			a friendly manner	in the middle of hot Africa; far, together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location

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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