Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 45

Whenever Antaeus took a walk, supposing it were but ten miles, and that he stepped a hundred yards at a stride, you may try to cipher out how much mightier he was, on sitting down again, than when he first started.

Who acts: Antaeus, supposing, you · What happens: take, suppose, be, step, try, cipher out · To what, where: walk, ten miles, hundred yards, stride

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 (Antaeus, supposing, you), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 took	advmod
2	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 try	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 supposing	punct
7	supposing	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 miles	csubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 supposing	obj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 miles	cop
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 miles	cc
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 miles	nummod
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stepped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stepped	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 stepped	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stepped	nsubj
17	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hundred	det
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 yards	nummod
20	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stepped	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 stride	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stride	det
23	stride	stride	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stepped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 try	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 try	aux
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cipher	mark
29	cipher	cipher	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 try	xcomp
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 cipher	compound:prt
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 mightier	advmod
33	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 cipher	conj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 was	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mightier	cop
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sitting	punct
37	on	on	SCONJ	_	38 sitting	mark
38	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 try	parataxis
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 sitting	advmod
40	again	again	ADV	_	38 sitting	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 started	punct
42	than	than	SCONJ	_	46 started	mark
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 started	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 started	nsubj
45	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 started	advmod
46	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sitting	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Antaeus	a walk			whenever property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
2	suppose	gerund		walk				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
3	is a	past	supposing	ten miles				tree rules
4	step	past	Antaeus	hundred yards	a stride			tree rules
5	try	may	you					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cipher out not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
7	is	past	you not said here				mighty property	tree rules
8	sit down	gerund				again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	start	past	Antaeus				first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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