Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 78

Then the Pygmy army would march homeward in triumph, attributing the victory entirely to their own valor, and to the warlike skill and strategy of whomsoever happened to be captain general; and for a tedious while afterwards, nothing would be heard of but grand processions, and public banquets, and brilliant illuminations, and shows of wax-work, with likenesses of the distinguished officers, as small as life.

Who acts: Pygmy army, warlike skill · What happens: march, attribute, happen, be, hear, show · To what, where: homeward, triumph, victory, captain, nothing, wax work

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 (Pygmy army, warlike skill), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 march	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 army	det
3	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 army	amod
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 march	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 march	aux
6	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 march	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 triumph	case
9	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 march	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attributing	punct
11	attributing	attribute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 march	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 victory	det
13	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attributing	obj
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	11 attributing	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 valor	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 valor	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 valor	amod
18	valor	valor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entirely	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 happened	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 happened	cc
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 skill	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 skill	det
23	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skill	amod
24	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 happened	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 strategy	cc
26	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skill	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 whomsoever	case
28	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strategy	nmod
29	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 attributing	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 captain	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 captain	cop
32	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 happened	obj
33	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 captain	amod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 tedious	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tedious	cc
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 tedious	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tedious	det
38	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 march	parataxis
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 afterwards	mark
40	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	38 tedious	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 heard	punct
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	45 heard	nsubj:pass
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 heard	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 heard	aux:pass
45	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 tedious	parataxis
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 processions	case
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 processions	cc
48	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 processions	amod
49	processions	procession	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 heard	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 banquets	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 banquets	cc
52	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 banquets	amod
53	banquets	banquet	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 processions	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 illuminations	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 illuminations	cc
56	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 illuminations	amod
57	illuminations	illumination	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 processions	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 shows	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 shows	cc
60	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 processions	conj
61	of	of	ADP	_	64 work	case
62	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 work	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 wax	punct
64	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 shows	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 likenesses	punct
66	with	with	ADP	_	67 likenesses	case
67	likenesses	likeness	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 heard	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	71 officers	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 officers	det
70	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 officers	amod
71	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 likenesses	nmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 small	punct
73	as	as	ADP	_	74 small	case
74	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 heard	parataxis
75	as	as	ADP	_	76 life	case
76	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 small	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 march	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	would	the Pygmy army	homeward	triumph	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme in triumph=Trajectory
2	attribute	gerund	the Pygmy army not said here	the victory			entirely property	tree rules
3	happen	past	the warlike skill and strategy of whomsoever					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		captain				tree rules
5	hear	would · passive		nothing			of grand processions and public banquets and brilliant illuminations and shows of wax work; with likenesses of the distinguished officers	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
6	show			wax work				nom show «act transitive»: of=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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