Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 31
So they kept shouting to him, and even went so far as to prick him with their swords.
Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: keep, shout, go, prick · To what, where: club
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 went | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 prick | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prick | mark |
| 15 | prick | prick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 far | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prick | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 swords | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 swords | nmod:poss |
| 19 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prick | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Pygmies = pygmy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | Pygmies = pygmy not said here | club | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Pygmies = pygmy not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prick | to-infinitive | Pygmies = pygmy not said here | club | with Pygmies's swords | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sword=Instrument |
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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