Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 5
Among the Pygmies, I suppose, if one of them grew to the height of six or eight inches, he was reckoned a prodigiously tall man.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: suppose, grow, reckon · To what, where: Africa
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 (I, one), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Pygmies | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pygmies | det |
| 3 | Pygmies | Pygmy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 suppose | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 suppose | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 suppose | nsubj |
| 6 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 grew | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suppose | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 height | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 height | det |
| 15 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 inches | case |
| 17 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 inches | nummod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 eight | cc |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 six | conj |
| 20 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 height | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reckoned | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reckoned | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reckoned | aux:pass |
| 24 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 grew | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 26 | prodigiously | prodigiously | ADV | _ | 27 tall | advmod |
| 27 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reckoned | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | among the Pygmies | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow a condition, not said to happen | past | one of Pygmies | to the height of six inches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reckon | past · passive | Africa | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme man=Attribute |
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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