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title: The Pygmies loved to talk with Antaeus; and fifty times a day, one o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pygmies loved to talk with Antaeus; and fifty times a day, one or another of them would turn up his head, and shout through the hollow of his fists, "Halloo, brother Antaeus! Who acts: Pygmies, fifty times. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 23

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The Pygmies loved to talk with Antaeus; and fifty times a day, one or another of them would turn up his head, and shout through the hollow of his fists, "Halloo, brother Antaeus!

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**Who acts:** Pygmies, fifty times · **What happens:** love, talk, turn up, shout · **To what, where:** head, hollow

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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, fifty times), 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:pg976:7:23
# text = The Pygmies loved to talk with Antaeus; and fifty times a day, one or another of them would turn up his head, and shout through the hollow of his fists, "Halloo, brother Antaeus!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Halloo	halloo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the Pygmies |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Pygmies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Antaeus | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with antaeus=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **turn up** | would | fifty times  a day | Antaeus's head |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the Pygmies *not said here* |  |  | the hollow of Antaeus's fists |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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