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title: So saying, this valiant Pygmy drew out his weapon (which was terribl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, this valiant Pygmy drew out his weapon (which was terrible to behold, being as long as the blade of a penknife), and sent the scabbard whirling over the heads of the multitude. Who acts: valiant Pygmy, weapon, scabbard. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 33

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So saying, this valiant Pygmy drew out his weapon (which was terrible to behold, being as long as the blade of a penknife), and sent the scabbard whirling over the heads of the multitude.

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**Who acts:** valiant Pygmy, weapon, scabbard · **What happens:** say, draw out, be, send, whirl · **To what, where:** weapon, scabbard, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valiant Pygmy, weapon, scabbard), 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:pg976:9:33
# text = So saying, this valiant Pygmy drew out his weapon (which was terrible to behold, being as long as the blade of a penknife), and sent the scabbard whirling over the heads of the multitude.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	penknife	penknife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw out** | past | this valiant Pygmy | fame's weapon |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | fame's weapon |  |  |  |  | terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as the blade of a penknife; long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **send** | past |  | the scabbard |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scabbard=Theme |
| 6 | **whirl** | gerund | the scabbard *not said here* |  |  | the heads of the multitude |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination |

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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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