Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 35

The Giant's life being as long as his body was large, while the lifetime of a Pygmy was but a span, this friendly intercourse had been going on for innumerable generations and ages.

Who acts: life, span · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: lifetime

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 (life, span), 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 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 life	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Giant	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 large	nsubj:outer
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 large	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 large	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 large	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 large	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 large	cop
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lifetime	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 lifetime	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lifetime	det
16	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 large	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Pygmy	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Pygmy	det
19	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lifetime	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 going	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 span	det
23	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 going	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 intercourse	punct
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 intercourse	det
26	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 intercourse	amod
27	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 span	conj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lifetime	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 going	compound:prt
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 generations	case
33	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 generations	amod
34	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 going	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ages	cc
36	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 generations	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the Giant's life					the lifetime of a Pygmy obl; large, long property	tree rules
2	go on	past · perfect · progressive	a span and this friendly intercourse	the lifetime of a Pygmy not said here			for innumerable generations and ages		tree rules

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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