Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 33

So saying, this valiant Pygmy drew out his weapon (which was terrible to behold, being as long as the blade of a penknife), and sent the scabbard whirling over the heads of the multitude.

Who acts: valiant Pygmy, weapon, scabbard · What happens: say, draw out, be, send, whirl · To what, where: weapon, scabbard, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (valiant Pygmy, weapon, scabbard), 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	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sent	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drew	punct
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Pygmy	det
5	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Pygmy	amod
6	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	nsubj
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saying	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 drew	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 weapon	nmod:poss
10	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	obj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 terrible	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 terrible	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 terrible	cop
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weapon	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 behold	mark
16	behold	behold	INTJ	_	14 terrible	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 long	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 saying	ccomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 blade	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blade	det
23	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 long	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 penknife	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 penknife	det
26	penknife	penknife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blade	nmod
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sent	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sent	cc
30	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 scabbard	det
32	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sent	obj
33	whirling	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 scabbard	acl
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 heads	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heads	det
36	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 whirling	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 multitude	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 multitude	det
39	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heads	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	draw out	past	this valiant Pygmy	fame's weapon			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
3	is	past	fame's weapon			terrible property	tree rules
4	is	gerund				as the blade of a penknife; long property	tree rules
5	send	past		the scabbard			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scabbard=Theme
6	whirl	gerund	the scabbard not said here		the heads of the multitude		vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=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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