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title: Once, to be sure (as was recorded on an obelisk, three feet high, er… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, to be sure (as was recorded on an obelisk, three feet high, erected on the place of the catastrophe), Antaeus sat down upon about five thousand Pygmies, who were assembled at a military review. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 38

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Once, to be sure (as was recorded on an obelisk, three feet high, erected on the place of the catastrophe), Antaeus sat down upon about five thousand Pygmies, who were assembled at a military review.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** be, record, erect, sit down, assemble · **To what, where:** obelisk, place, thousand Pygmies, military review

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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 (Antaeus), 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:pg976:7:38
# text = Once, to be sure (as was recorded on an obelisk, three feet high, erected on the place of the catastrophe), Antaeus sat down upon about five thousand Pygmies, who were assembled at a military review.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	obelisk	obelisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | once, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **record** | past · passive |  |  |  | a obelisk |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on obelisk=Destination |
| 3 | **erect** | participle |  |  |  | the place of the catastrophe |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | Antaeus |  |  | thousand Pygmies |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pygmy=Location |
| 5 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | thousand Pygmies |  | a military review |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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