Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 47

As a great many thousand Pygmies were employed in this task, they soon brought together several bushels of inflammatory matter, and raised so tall a heap, that, mounting on its summit, they were quite upon a level with the sleeper's face.

Who acts: Pygmies, several bushels, that · What happens: employ, bring together, raise, mount, be · To what, where: great many thousand Pygmies, task, several bushels, heap, summit

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, several bushels, that), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 employed	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Pygmies	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Pygmies	amod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Pygmies	amod
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Pygmies	nummod
6	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 employed	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 employed	aux:pass
8	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 brought	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 task	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 task	det
11	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 employed	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brought	nsubj
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 brought	advmod
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 brought	advmod
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bushels	amod
18	bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 matter	case
20	inflammatory	inflammatory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 matter	amod
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bushels	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raised	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 raised	cc
24	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bushels	acl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 tall	advmod
26	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 raised	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 heap	det
28	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raised	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mounting	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 mounting	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mounting	punct
32	mounting	mount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 raised	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 summit	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 summit	nmod:poss
35	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mounting	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 level	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 level	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 level	cop
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 level	advmod
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 level	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 level	det
42	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mounting	obl
43	with	with	ADP	_	47 face	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sleeper	det
45	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 face	nmod:poss
46	's	's	PART	_	45 sleeper	case
47	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 level	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	employ	past · passive		a great many thousand Pygmies	this task		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	bring together	past	Pygmies = pygmy	several bushels of inflammatory matter		soon, together property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme
3	raise	participle	several bushels of inflammatory matter not said here	a heap		tall property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme
4	mount	gerund	that		heap's summit		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on summit=Destination
5	is	past	Pygmies = pygmy			upon a level; with the sleeper's face	tree rules

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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