Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 38

Once, to be sure (as was recorded on an obelisk, three feet high, erected on the place of the catastrophe), Antaeus sat down upon about five thousand Pygmies, who were assembled at a military review.

Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: be, record, erect, sit down, assemble · To what, where: obelisk, place, thousand Pygmies, military review

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 (Antaeus), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 sure	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	5 sure	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	cop
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 recorded	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 recorded	mark
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 recorded	aux:pass
9	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 obelisk	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 obelisk	det
12	obelisk	obelisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recorded	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feet	punct
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feet	nummod
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 high	obl:unmarked
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 obelisk	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 erected	punct
18	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 recorded	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 erected	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 catastrophe	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 catastrophe	det
24	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	nmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 recorded	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
27	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	ccomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 sat	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 Pygmies	case
31	about	about	ADV	_	33 thousand	advmod
32	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 thousand	compound
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 Pygmies	nummod
34	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sat	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 assembled	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 assembled	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 assembled	aux:pass
38	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 Pygmies	acl
39	at	at	ADP	_	42 review	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 review	det
41	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 review	amod
42	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 assembled	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				once, sure property	tree rules
2	record	past · passive			a obelisk		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on obelisk=Destination
3	erect	participle			the place of the catastrophe		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	Antaeus		thousand Pygmies	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pygmy=Location
5	assemble	past · passive		thousand Pygmies	a military review		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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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