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title: What a wailing did the poor little Pygmies set up when they saw thei… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What a wailing did the poor little Pygmies set up when they saw their enormous brother treated in this terrible manner! Who acts: wailing, poor little Pygmies, Pygmies. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 105

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What a wailing did the poor little Pygmies set up when they saw their enormous brother treated in this terrible manner!

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**Who acts:** wailing, poor little Pygmies, Pygmies · **What happens:** do, set up, see, treat · **To what, where:** enormous brother, terrible manner

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wailing, poor little Pygmies, Pygmies), 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:pg976:8:105
# text = What a wailing did the poor little Pygmies set up when they saw their enormous brother treated in this terrible manner!
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what wailing |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set up** | present | the poor little Pygmies |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | Pygmies *= pygmy* | Pygmies's enormous brother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 4 | **treat** | participle |  | Pygmies's enormous brother *not said here* |  | this terrible manner |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=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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