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title: This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother (that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother (that is to say, our good old Grandmother Earth), were all brethren, and dwelt together in a very friendly and affectionate manner, far, far off, in the middle of hot Africa. Who acts: Pygmies, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by N
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 2

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This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother (that is to say, our good old Grandmother Earth), were all brethren, and dwelt together in a very friendly and affectionate manner, far, far off, in the middle of hot Africa.

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**Who acts:** Pygmies, that · **What happens:** be, dwell · **To what, where:** children, friendly manner

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pygmies, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg976:7:2
# text = This Giant and these Pygmies being children of the same mother (that is to say, our good old Grandmother Earth), were all brethren, and dwelt together in a very friendly and affectionate manner, far, far off, in the middle of hot Africa.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	brethren	brethren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
43	off	off	ADV	RB	_	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | this Pygmies | children |  |  |  | of the same mother | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | all, brethren *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | past |  |  |  | a friendly manner |  | in the middle of hot Africa; far, together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |

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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.

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**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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