Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 37

The most venerable and white-bearded Pygmy had never heard of a time, even in his greatest of grandfathers' days, when the Giant was not their enormous friend.

Who acts: venerable bearded Pygmy, Giant · What happens: not hear, not be · To what, where: enormous friend

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 (venerable bearded Pygmy, Giant), 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	8 Pygmy	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 venerable	advmod
3	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Pygmy	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 white	cc
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 venerable	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct
7	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Pygmy	amod
8	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 heard	advmod
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 days	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	23 days	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	23 days	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 days	nmod:poss
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 days	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 days	case
21	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 days	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 grandfathers	case
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 friend	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 friend	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Giant	det
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friend	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 friend	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 friend	advmod
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friend	nmod:poss
31	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friend	amod
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 days	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect	the venerable bearded Pygmy				day; time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	past	the Giant	Pygmies's enormous friend					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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