Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 27

The orator was here interrupted by a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm; every individual Pygmy crying out that the national honor must be preserved at all hazards.

Who acts: burst, individual Pygmy · What happens: interrupt, cry out, preserve, burst · To what, where: orator, individual Pygmy, hazards, irrepressible enthusiasm

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: who acts (burst, individual Pygmy), 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 orator	det
2	orator	orator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 interrupted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 interrupted	aux:pass
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 interrupted	advmod
5	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 burst	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 burst	det
8	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 interrupted	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 enthusiasm	case
10	irrepressible	irrepressible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 enthusiasm	amod
11	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burst	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 preserved	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 Pygmy	det
14	individual	individual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Pygmy	amod
15	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 preserved	nsubj:pass
16	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Pygmy	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 crying	compound:prt
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 honor	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 honor	det
20	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 honor	amod
21	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crying	advcl
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 preserved	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 preserved	aux:pass
24	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 interrupted	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 hazards	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 hazards	det
27	hazards	hazard	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 preserved	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	interrupt	past · passive	a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm	the orator	here	tree rules
2	cry out speech: express	gerund	every individual Pygmy not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	preserve	must · passive		every individual Pygmy	all hazards	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	burst			irrepressible enthusiasm		nom burst «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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