Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 81

Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmies in his lion's skin, and carried them home to Greece, for the children of King Eurystheus to play with.

Who acts: writers, Hercules, Pygmies · What happens: say, gather up, carry, play, race · To what, where: whole race, writers, Greece · 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 (writers, Hercules, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 writers	det
2	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gathered	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 gathered	mark
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	nsubj
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 gathered	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 race	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 race	amod
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Pygmies	case
13	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 race	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 skin	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lion	nmod:poss
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skin	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 lion	case
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Pygmies	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carried	cc
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathered	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	obj
23	home	home	ADV	_	21 carried	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Greece	case
25	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 children	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 children	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carried	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 King	case
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 children	nmod
32	Eurystheus	Eurystheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 King	flat
33	to	to	PART	_	34 play	mark
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 children	acl
35	with	with	ADP	_	34 play	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some writers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gather up	past	Hercules	the whole race of Pygmies in Hercules's lion's skin			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme
3	carry	past	Hercules not said here	writers = writer	Greece	for the children of King; home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to greece=Destination
4	play	to-infinitive	Hercules not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	race		Pygmies in Hercules's lion's skin				nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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