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title: As for the Giant, being of a very lofty stature, it was easy enough… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the Giant, being of a very lofty stature, it was easy enough to see him, but safest to keep out of his sight. Who acts: Africa. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 4

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As for the Giant, being of a very lofty stature, it was easy enough to see him, but safest to keep out of his sight.

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**Who acts:** Africa · **What happens:** be, see, keep out, sight · **To what, where:** Africa, sight

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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 (Africa), 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:pg976:7:4
# text = As for the Giant, being of a very lofty stature, it was easy enough to see him, but safest to keep out of his sight.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of a lofty stature | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | easy, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Africa |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep out** | to-infinitive |  | Africa's sight |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 6 | **sight** |  | Africa |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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