Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 101

So it proved with the poor Giant, whom I am really a little sorry for, notwithstanding his uncivil way of treating strangers who came to visit him.

Who acts: region, I, treating strangers · What happens: prove, be, notwithstand, treat, come, visit · To what, where: uncivil way, way

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 (region, I, treating strangers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 proved	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proved	nsubj
3	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 Giant	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Giant	amod
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proved	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sorry	punct
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sorry	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sorry	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sorry	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	15 sorry	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sorry	obl:unmarked
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Giant	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 notwithstanding	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 notwithstanding	punct
18	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sorry	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
20	uncivil	uncivil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 notwithstanding	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 strangers	case
23	treating	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 strangers	amod
24	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 way	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 strangers	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 visit	mark
28	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 visit	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prove	past	region			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I		a little obl:unmarked; sorry property	tree rules
3	notwithstand	gerund	I not said here	fellow's uncivil way of treating strangers		tree rules
4	treat	gerund				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	treating strangers			tree rules
6	visit	to-infinitive	treating strangers not said here	way		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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