Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 40

So the Pygmies resolved to set aside all foolish punctilios, and assail their antagonist at once.

Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: resolve, set, assail · To what, where: foolish punctilios, antagonist

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 (Pygmies), 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	_	4 resolved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pygmies	det
3	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 resolved	nsubj
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 set	mark
6	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	xcomp
7	aside	aside	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 punctilios	det
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 punctilios	amod
10	punctilios	punctilio	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 assail	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 assail	cc
13	assail	assail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 antagonist	nmod:poss
15	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 assail	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 assail	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	the Pygmies			tree rules
2	set	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	all foolish punctilios	aside property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient punctilio=Result
3	assail	infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	Pygmies's antagonist		vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antagonist=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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