Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 34

In short, as I said before, Antaeus loved the Pygmies, and the Pygmies loved Antaeus.

Who acts: I, Antaeus, Pygmies · What happens: say, love · To what, where: Pygmies, Antaeus · 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 (I, Antaeus, Pygmies), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 loved	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 short	conj
7	before	before	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct
9	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pygmies	det
12	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loved	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loved	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Pygmies	det
16	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 loved	nsubj
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 loved	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	past	Antaeus	the Pygmies		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pygmy=Stimulus
3	love	past	the Pygmies	Antaeus		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer antaeus=Stimulus

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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