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title: So the Pygmies resolved to set aside all foolish punctilios, and ass… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Pygmies resolved to set aside all foolish punctilios, and assail their antagonist at once. Who acts: Pygmies. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 40

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So the Pygmies resolved to set aside all foolish punctilios, and assail their antagonist at once.

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**Who acts:** Pygmies · **What happens:** resolve, set, assail · **To what, where:** foolish punctilios, antagonist

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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 (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:pg976:9:40
# text = So the Pygmies resolved to set aside all foolish punctilios, and assail their antagonist at once.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	punctilios	punctilio	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | the Pygmies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | the Pygmies *not said here* | all foolish punctilios |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient punctilio=Result |
| 3 | **assail** | infinitive | the Pygmies *not said here* | Pygmies's antagonist |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antagonist=Patient |

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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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