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

One of their most eloquent orators (and a valiant warrior enough, besides, though hardly so good at any other weapon as he was with his tongue) climbed upon a toadstool, and, from that elevated position, addressed the multitude.

Who acts: breathing, eloquent orators · What happens: be, climb, elevate, address · To what, where: One, toadstool, multitude, elevated position

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 (breathing, eloquent orators), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 climbed	obl
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 orators	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 orators	nmod:poss
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 eloquent	advmod
5	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 orators	amod
6	orators	orator	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 climbed	nsubj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 warrior	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warrior	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 warrior	det
10	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 warrior	amod
11	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 orators	appos
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 warrior	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 besides	punct
14	besides	besides	INTJ	_	11 warrior	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
16	though	though	ADV	_	19 good	mark
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 warrior	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 weapon	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 weapon	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weapon	amod
23	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 good	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 tongue	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tongue	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tongue	cop
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 tongue	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tongue	nmod:poss
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 good	advcl
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 warrior	punct
31	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 toadstool	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 toadstool	det
34	toadstool	toadstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 climbed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 addressed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 addressed	cc
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 and	punct
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 position	case
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 position	det
40	elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 position	amod
41	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 addressed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 position	punct
43	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 climbed	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 multitude	det
45	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 addressed	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	breathing			with breathing's tongue	tree rules
2	climb	past	heads's eloquent orators	One	a toadstool		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon toadstool=Trajectory
3	elevate	participle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	address	past	heads's eloquent orators not said here	the multitude	that elevated position		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Destination

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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