Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 30

The Pygmies, being ten times as vivacious as their great numskull of a brother, could not abide the Giant's slow movements, and were determined to have him on his feet.

Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: be, not abide, have · To what, where: Giant slow movements, club, feet

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 abide	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 vivacious	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 vivacious	cop
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vivacious	obl:unmarked
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 vivacious	advmod
8	vivacious	vivacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Pygmies	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 numskull	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 numskull	nmod:poss
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 numskull	amod
12	numskull	numskull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vivacious	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 brother	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 brother	det
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 numskull	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pygmies	punct
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 abide	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 abide	advmod
19	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 movements	det
21	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 movements	amod
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Giant	case
23	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 movements	amod
24	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 abide	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 determined	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 determined	cc
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 determined	cop
28	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 abide	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 determined	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 feet	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feet	nmod:poss
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 abide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the Pygmies not said here			time	as Pygmies's great numskull of a brother; vivacious property	tree rules
2	not abide	could	the Pygmies	the Giant slow movements				tree rules
3	is	past	the Pygmies not said here				determined property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	club	club's feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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