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title: The most venerable and white-bearded Pygmy had never heard of a time… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The most venerable and white-bearded Pygmy had never heard of a time, even in his greatest of grandfathers' days, when the Giant was not their enormous friend. Who acts: venerable bearded Pygmy, Giant. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 37

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The most venerable and white-bearded Pygmy had never heard of a time, even in his greatest of grandfathers' days, when the Giant was not their enormous friend.

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**Who acts:** venerable bearded Pygmy, Giant · **What happens:** not hear, not be · **To what, where:** enormous friend

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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 (venerable bearded Pygmy, Giant), 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:pg976:7:37
# text = The most venerable and white-bearded Pygmy had never heard of a time, even in his greatest of grandfathers' days, when the Giant was not their enormous friend.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | the venerable bearded Pygmy |  |  |  | day; time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the Giant | Pygmies's enormous friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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