Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 100

For these earth-born creatures are only difficult to conquer on their own ground, but may easily be managed if we can contrive to lift them into a loftier and purer region.

Who acts: we · What happens: bear, be, conquer, manage, contrive, lift · To what, where: own ground, creatures, loftier region

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 creatures	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 creatures	det
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 earth	punct
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 difficult	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 difficult	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 difficult	advmod
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 conquer	mark
11	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 difficult	csubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ground	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ground	amod
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conquer	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 managed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 managed	cc
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 managed	aux
19	easily	easily	ADV	_	21 managed	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 managed	aux:pass
21	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 difficult	conj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 contrive	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 contrive	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 contrive	aux
25	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 managed	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 lift	mark
27	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 contrive	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lift	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	34 region	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 region	det
31	loftier	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 region	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 purer	cc
33	purer	pure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 loftier	conj
34	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lift	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present				for this born creatures; difficult property	tree rules
3	conquer	to-infinitive			creatures's own ground		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	manage	may · passive				easily property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: clause=Eventuality
5	contrive a condition, not said to happen	can	we				tree rules
6	lift	to-infinitive	we not said here	creatures = creature	a loftier region		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into region=Destination

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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