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title: But I have now said enough to let you see what a gallant little peop… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But I have now said enough to let you see what a gallant little people these were, and how happily they and their forefathers, for nobody knows how many generations, had lived with the immeasurable Giant Antaeus. Who acts: I, you, nobody, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthor
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 81

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But I have now said enough to let you see what a gallant little people these were, and how happily they and their forefathers, for nobody knows how many generations, had lived with the immeasurable Giant Antaeus.

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**Who acts:** I, you, nobody, people · **What happens:** say, let, see, know, live · **To what, where:** you, gallant little people, many generations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, you, nobody, people), 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:pg976:7:81
# text = But I have now said enough to let you see what a gallant little people these were, and how happily they and their forefathers, for nobody knows how many generations, had lived with the immeasurable Giant Antaeus.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	15	det	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
29	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	immeasurable	immeasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | now | enough *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | what gallant little people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | present | nobody | many generations |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer generation=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | past · perfect | people |  |  |  |  | with the immeasurable Giant Antaeus; happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with antaeus=Location |

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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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