Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 85

Now Hercules (though strong enough, as you already know, to hold the sky up) began to be sensible that he should never win the victory, if he kept on knocking Antaeus down; for, by and by, if he hit him such hard blows, the Giant would inevitably, by the help of his Mother Earth, become stronger than the mighty Hercules himself.

Who acts: you, Hercules · What happens: know, hold up, begin, be, not win, keep · To what, where: sky, victory, Antaeus, Mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Hercules), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 began	advmod
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 began	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 strong	mark
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Hercules	amod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hold	mark
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	14 hold	compound:prt
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	22 sensible	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sensible	cop
22	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 began	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 win	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 win	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 win	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 win	advmod
27	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sensible	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 victory	det
29	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 win	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kept	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 kept	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 kept	nsubj
33	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 win	conj
34	on	on	SCONJ	_	35 knocking	mark
35	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 kept	xcomp
36	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 knocking	obj
37	down	down	ADV	_	35 knocking	advmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 for	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	19 began	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 for	punct
41	by	by	ADP	_	39 for	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 by	cc
43	by	by	ADP	_	41 by	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 hit	punct
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 hit	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hit	nsubj
47	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 began	parataxis
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hit	obj
49	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 blows	amod
50	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 blows	amod
51	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 hit	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 would	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Giant	det
54	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 would	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 blows	acl:relcl
56	inevitably	inevitably	ADV	_	55 would	advmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 help	punct
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 help	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 help	det
60	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hit	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 Mother	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 Mother	nmod:poss
63	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 help	nmod
64	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 Mother	appos
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 become	punct
66	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 hit	conj
67	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	66 become	xcomp
68	than	than	ADP	_	71 Hercules	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 Hercules	det
70	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 Hercules	amod
71	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 stronger	obl
72	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	71 Hercules	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hold up	to-infinitive		the sky			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sky=Theme
3	begin	past	Hercules		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	to-infinitive	Hercules not said here			sensible property	tree rules
5	not win	should	Hercules	the victory			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality
6	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Hercules				tree rules
7	knock down	gerund	Hercules not said here	Antaeus		down property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent antaeus=Patient
8	hit a condition, not said to happen	past	Hercules	Antaeus		by the help of Hercules's Mother	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient blow=Result
9	become	infinitive	Hercules not said here			strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	help			Hercules's Mother			nom help «act transitive»: of=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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