--- title: However this might be, and whatever creatures the Pygmies rode upon,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: However this might be, and whatever creatures the Pygmies rode upon, I do not doubt that they made a formidable appearance, armed with sword and spear, and bow and arrow, blowing their tiny trumpet, and shouting their little war cry. Who acts: this, I, Pygmies, bow. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/72/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pygmies., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/) / 72 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 72 However this might be, and whatever creatures the Pygmies rode upon, I do not doubt that they made a formidable appearance, armed with sword and spear, and bow and arrow, blowing their tiny trumpet, and shouting their little war cry. **Who acts:** this, I, Pygmies, bow · **What happens:** be, not doubt, make, blow, shout, cry · **To what, where:** formidable appearance, tiny trumpet, little war cry 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 (this, I, Pygmies, bow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:7:72 # text = However this might be, and whatever creatures the Pygmies rode upon, I do not doubt that they made a formidable appearance, armed with sword and spear, and bow and arrow, blowing their tiny trumpet, and shouting their little war cry. 1 However however ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 3 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 det:predet _ _ 8 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Pygmies pygmy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 upon upon SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 doubt doubt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 formidable formidable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | might | this | | | | | however, ride *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **doubt** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | Pygmies *= pygmy* | a formidable appearance | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product | | 4 | **blow** | gerund | bow and arrow | Pygmies's tiny trumpet | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | bow and arrow *not said here* | Pygmies's little war cry | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | | 6 | **cry** | | Pygmies *= pygmy* | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/73/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/)