Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 69

They were constantly at war with the cranes, and had always been so, ever since the long-lived Giant could remember.

Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: be, live, remember · To what, where: war

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 war	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 war	cop
3	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	5 war	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 war	case
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cranes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cranes	det
8	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 war	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remember	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 remember	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 remember	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 so	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 so	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 ever	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ever	punct
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 remember	advmod
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	24 remember	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 remember	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lived	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
21	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 remember	advcl
22	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lived	xcomp
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 remember	aux
24	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 war	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 war	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Pygmies = pygmy	war		with the cranes; constantly property	tree rules
2	is	participle				always, so property	tree rules
3	live	participle				giant property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remember	could · past			ever		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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