Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 3

The Pygmies were so small, and there were so many sandy deserts and such high mountains between them and the rest of mankind, that nobody could get a peep at them oftener than once in a hundred years.

Who acts: Pygmies, many sandy deserts, nobody · What happens: be, get · To what, where: peep

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, many sandy deserts, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 small	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deserts	amod
12	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deserts	amod
13	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mountains	cc
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mountains	amod
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mountains	amod
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deserts	conj
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mountains	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rest	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 them	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mankind	case
24	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rest	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 get	mark
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 peep	det
31	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	obl
34	oftener	often	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 get	xcomp
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 once	case
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 oftener	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 years	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hundred	det
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 years	nummod
40	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 get	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Pygmies				small property	tree rules
2	be	past	many sandy deserts and such high mountains between Pygmies		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	could	nobody	a peep		year	at Pygmies = pygmy; often property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent peep=Theme at they=Asset

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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