Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 36

It was written about in the Pygmy histories, and talked about in their ancient traditions.

What happens: write, talk about · To what, where: life, ancient traditions

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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 written	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 histories	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 histories	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 histories	det
7	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 histories	amod
8	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 written	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 talked	cc
11	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 written	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	11 talked	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 traditions	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 traditions	nmod:poss
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 traditions	amod
16	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 talked	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		life				about the Pygmy histories	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about history=Topic
2	talk about	past				histories's ancient traditions			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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