Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 42

The Earth, you remember, was his mother, and was very fond of him, as being almost the biggest of her children; and so she took this method of keeping him always in full vigor.

Who acts: you, Earth, mother, thing, method · What happens: remember, be, take, keep · To what, where: mother, method, Antaeus, full vigor

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 (you, Earth, mother, thing), 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 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Earth	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mother	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fond	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fond	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fond	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 fond	advmod
14	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fond	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 biggest	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 biggest	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 biggest	cop
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 biggest	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 biggest	det
22	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 fond	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 children	nmod:poss
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 biggest	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 took	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mother	parataxis
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 method	det
32	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obj
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 keeping	mark
34	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 method	acl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 keeping	obj
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 keeping	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 vigor	case
38	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 vigor	amod
39	vigor	vigor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 keeping	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	present	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the Earth	Antaeus's mother			tree rules
3	is	past	Antaeus's mother not said here			of Antaeus; fond property	tree rules
4	is	gerund	Antaeus's mother not said here			of thing's children; almost, big property	tree rules
5	take	past	thing	this method			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Theme
6	keep	gerund	this method not said here	Antaeus	full vigor	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in vigor=Location

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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