Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 4

His sentiments were pretty much as follows; or, at all events, something like this was probably the upshot of his speech:

Who acts: sentiments, this, breathing · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: upshot · 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 (sentiments, this, breathing), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sentiments	nmod:poss
2	sentiments	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 follows	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 follows	cop
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	7 follows	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 follows	mark
7	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 events	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 events	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 or	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 events	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 events	det
13	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 follows	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 something	punct
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 events	conj
16	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 upshot	mark
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 upshot	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 upshot	cop
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	21 upshot	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 upshot	det
21	upshot	upshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 speech	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 speech	nmod:poss
24	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 upshot	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 follows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	breathing's sentiments		follow property	tree rules
2	is a	past	this	the upshot	of breathing's speech; probably property	tree rules
3	speak		breathing			nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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