Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 73

"My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the grand nation, "not for all the world would I do an intentional injury to such brave fellows as you!

Who acts: good little people, world · What happens: say, make, do · To what, where: low obeisance, intentional injury · 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 (good little people, world), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 people	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 obeisance	det
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 obeisance	amod
14	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 nation	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nation	det
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nation	amod
18	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 world	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 world	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 world	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 making	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 injury	det
30	intentional	intentional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 injury	amod
31	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 fellows	case
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellows	amod
34	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellows	amod
35	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	obl
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	My good little people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	gerund	My good little people not said here	a low obeisance	to the grand nation	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product
3	do in a quote	would	all world	a intentional injury	to such brave fellows; as you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality

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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