Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 7

Yonder lies Antaeus, our great friend and brother, slain, within our territory, by a miscreant who took him at disadvantage, and fought him (if fighting it can be called) in a way that neither man, nor Giant, nor Pygmy ever dreamed of fighting, until this hour.

Who acts: miscreant, way, Pygmy · What happens: lie, take, fight, call, man, dream · To what, where: Antaeus, disadvantage, insult, way · 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 (miscreant, way, Pygmy), 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	Yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brother	cc
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friend	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slain	punct
11	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friend	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 territory	punct
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 territory	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 territory	nmod:poss
15	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 miscreant	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 miscreant	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 miscreant	det
19	miscreant	miscreant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 territory	appos
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 miscreant	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 disadvantage	case
24	disadvantage	disadvantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fought	cc
27	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lies	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fought	obj
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 fighting	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 fighting	mark
31	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fought	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 called	nsubj:pass
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 called	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 called	aux:pass
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 fighting	acl:relcl
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 called	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 man	nsubj
41	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	42 man	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 way	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Giant	punct
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 Giant	cc
45	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fought	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 dreamed	punct
47	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	50 dreamed	cc
48	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 dreamed	nsubj
49	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 dreamed	advmod
50	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lies	parataxis
51	of	of	SCONJ	_	52 fighting	mark
52	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 dreamed	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 hour	punct
54	until	until	ADP	_	56 hour	case
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 hour	det
56	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fighting	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present		Antaeus			yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antaeus=Theme
2	take	past	a miscreant	Antaeus	disadvantage			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at disadvantage=Asset
3	fight	past		Antaeus				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	fight a condition, not said to happen	gerund						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	can · passive		insult	a way			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	man		a way					tree rules
7	dream	past	Pygmy			ever		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
8	fight	gerund	Pygmy not said here			hour		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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