Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 86

So, throwing down his club, with which he had fought so many dreadful battles, the hero stood ready to receive his antagonist with naked arms.

Who acts: Hercules, hero · What happens: throw down, fight, stand, receive · To what, where: club, many dreadful battles, antagonist

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 (Hercules, hero), 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 throwing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 throwing	punct
3	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 throwing	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 club	nmod:poss
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throwing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fought	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fought	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fought	aux
12	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 throwing	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 battles	amod
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 battles	amod
16	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fought	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hero	det
19	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fought	conj
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stood	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 receive	mark
23	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stood	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 antagonist	nmod:poss
25	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 receive	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 arms	case
27	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 arms	amod
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 receive	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throwing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw down	gerund		Hercules's club		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
2	fight	past · perfect	Hercules	many dreadful battles		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent
3	stand	past	the hero		ready property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	receive	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	Hercules's antagonist	with naked arms	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antagonist=Theme

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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