Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 42

For, unless they had been his neighbors and well wishers, and, as we may say, his playfellows, Antaeus would not have had a single friend in the world.

Who acts: Pygmies, we, Antaeus · What happens: be, say, not have · To what, where: playfellows, single friend, world · 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 (Pygmies, we, 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	For	for	ADP	_	8 neighbors	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 neighbors	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 neighbors	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 neighbors	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 neighbors	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 neighbors	cop
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neighbors	nmod:poss
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wishers	cc
10	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wishers	amod
11	wishers	wisher	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 neighbors	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 playfellows	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 playfellows	nmod:poss
21	playfellows	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
23	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 had	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	aux
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 neighbors	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 friend	det
29	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 friend	amod
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 friend	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 neighbors	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Pygmies = pygmy			for Giant's neighbors and well wishers	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	may	we	Giant's playfellows			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent playfellow=Topic
3	not have	would · perfect	Antaeus	a single friend	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

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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