Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 12

We and our forefathers have dwelt in friendship with him, and held affectionate intercourse as man to man, through immemorial generations.

What happens: dwell, hold · To what, where: We, friendship, affectionate intercourse, immemorial generations

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dwelt	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 forefathers	cc
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 forefathers	nmod:poss
4	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 We	conj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dwelt	aux
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 friendship	case
8	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 friendship	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 held	cc
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dwelt	conj
14	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 intercourse	amod
15	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 man	case
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 generations	punct
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 generations	case
22	immemorial	immemorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 generations	amod
23	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 held	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	present · perfect · passive		We		friendship with Antaeus			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	hold	past		affectionate intercourse			through immemorial generations	as man to man	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent intercourse=Theme through generation=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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