Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 98

The truth was that unless the Giant touched Mother Earth as often as once in five minutes, not only his overgrown strength, but the very breath of his life, would depart from him.

Who acts: Giant, breath · What happens: be, depart · To what, where: truth

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 (Giant, breath), 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 truth	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 touched	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 touched	mark
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 touched	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 touched	nsubj
8	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 truth	acl:relcl
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Earth	compound
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 touched	obj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 often	advmod
12	often	often	ADV	_	8 touched	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 often	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 minutes	case
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 minutes	nummod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 touched	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 strength	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 strength	advmod
20	only	only	ADV	_	23 strength	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 strength	nmod:poss
22	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 strength	amod
23	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 minutes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 depart	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 depart	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 breath	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 breath	advmod
28	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 depart	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 life	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breath	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 breath	punct
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 depart	aux
34	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 touched	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 depart	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 truth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Giant	the truth not said here			minute	often, touch property	tree rules
2	depart	would	the breath of enemy's life					from enemy	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_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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