Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 67

If I were not Antaeus, I should like to be a Pygmy, just for the joke's sake."

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, like, be · To what, where: Antaeus, Pygmy

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), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 Antaeus	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Antaeus	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Antaeus	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Antaeus	advmod
5	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 like	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Antaeus	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	13 Pygmy	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 Pygmy	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Pygmy	det
13	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sake	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	20 sake	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 sake	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 joke	det
18	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sake	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 joke	case
20	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	I	Antaeus	tree rules
2	like	should	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a Pygmy	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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