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title: As for the Pygmies, their capital city was laid in ruins by the conc… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the Pygmies, their capital city was laid in ruins by the concussion and vibration of the air; and, though there was uproar enough without their help, they all set up a shriek out of three millions of little throats, fancying, no doubt, that they swelled the Giant's bellow by at least ten time
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 75

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As for the Pygmies, their capital city was laid in ruins by the concussion and vibration of the air; and, though there was uproar enough without their help, they all set up a shriek out of three millions of little throats, fancying, no doubt, that they swelled the Giant's bellow by at least ten times as much.

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**Who acts:** concussion, air · **What happens:** lay, be, set up, fancy, swell, vibrate · **To what, where:** capital city, ruins, shriek, three millions, doubt, Giant bellow

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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 (concussion, air), 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:pg976:8:75
# text = As for the Pygmies, their capital city was laid in ruins by the concussion and vibration of the air; and, though there was uproar enough without their help, they all set up a shriek out of three millions of little throats, fancying, no doubt, that they swelled the Giant's bellow by at least ten times as much.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	vibration	vibration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	uproar	uproar	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	fancying	fancy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	's	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	bellow	bellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
59	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	62	nmod	_	_
62	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	63	nummod	_	_
63	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
64	as	as	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	much	much	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · passive | the concussion and vibration of the air | Pygmies's capital city |  | ruins |  | as the Pygmies | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Result as pygmy=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | without concussion's help | tree rules |
| 3 | **set up** | present | concussion | a shriek |  | three millions of little throats |  | all *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme out million=Destination |
| 4 | **fancy** | gerund | concussion *not said here* | no doubt |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **swell** | past | concussion | Giant bellow |  |  | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bellow=Extent |
| 6 | **vibrate** |  | the air |  |  |  |  |  | nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=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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