--- title: Talus, the brazen giant, on his never-ceasing sentinel's march, happ… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Talus, the brazen giant, on his never-ceasing sentinel's march, happened to be approaching that part of the coast; and they saw him, by the glimmering of the moonbeams on his polished surface, while he was yet a great way off. Who acts: Talus, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Talus, people), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:6:79 # text = Talus, the brazen giant, on his never-ceasing sentinel's march, happened to be approaching that part of the coast; and they saw him, by the glimmering of the moonbeams on his polished surface, while he was yet a great way off. 1 Talus Talus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 brazen brazen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ceasing cease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 sentinel sentinel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 16 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 approaching approach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 glimmering glimmering NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 moonbeams moonbeam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 polished polish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 amod _ _ 40 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 42 while while SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 45 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ _ 49 off off ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **cease** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **happen** | past | Talus | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **approach** | to-infinitive · progressive | Talus *not said here* | that part of the coast | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | people | part | | | | by the glimmering of the moonbeams on Talus's polished surface | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **polish** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | Talus | a great way | | | | off *property* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/80/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/6/)