Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 84

In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many centuries ago, the valiant Pygmies avenged the death of the Giant Antaeus by scaring away the mighty Hercules.

Who acts: history, valiant Pygmies, Giant Antaeus · What happens: stand, record, avenge, scare away, die · To what, where: that, histories, death, mighty Hercules

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 (history, valiant Pygmies, Giant Antaeus), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 histories	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 histories	det
3	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stands	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 perhaps	punct
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 histories	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 histories	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stands	nsubj
8	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stands	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 that	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 stands	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 centuries	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 centuries	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 centuries	amod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 centuries	amod
16	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 that	appos
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	16 centuries	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 avenged	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Pygmies	det
20	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Pygmies	amod
21	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 avenged	nsubj
22	avenged	avenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stands	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 death	det
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 avenged	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Antaeus	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Antaeus	det
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Antaeus	amod
28	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 death	nmod
29	by	by	SCONJ	_	30 scaring	mark
30	scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 avenged	advcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 scaring	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Hercules	det
33	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Hercules	amod
34	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 scaring	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	history	that	that histories		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	record	participle	history not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	avenge	past	the valiant Pygmies	the death of the Giant Antaeus			tree rules
4	scare away	gerund	the valiant Pygmies not said here	the mighty Hercules		away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hercules=Experiencer
5	die		the Giant Antaeus				nom death «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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