Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 82
In the remaining part of the story, I shall tell you of a far more astonishing battle than any that was fought between the Pygmies and the cranes.
Who acts: I, astonishing battle · What happens: tell, fight · To what, where: you, remaining part, any · 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 (I, astonishing battle), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 battle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 battle | det |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 astonishing | advmod |
| 17 | astonishing | astonishing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 battle | amod |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 fought | mark |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fought | aux:pass |
| 23 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 battle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 Pygmies | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Pygmies | det |
| 26 | Pygmies | Pygmy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 fought | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cranes | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cranes | det |
| 29 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Pygmies | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | shall | I | you | the remaining part of the story | of a astonishing battle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||
| 2 | fight | past · passive | a astonishing battle not said here | any | between the Pygmies and the cranes | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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