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title: Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmie… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmies in his lion's skin, and carried them home to Greece, for the children of King Eurystheus to play with. Who acts: writers, Hercules, Pygmies. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 81

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Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmies in his lion's skin, and carried them home to Greece, for the children of King Eurystheus to play with.

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**Who acts:** writers, Hercules, Pygmies · **What happens:** say, gather up, carry, play, race · **To what, where:** whole race, writers, Greece · **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 (writers, Hercules, 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:pg976:9:81
# text = Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmies in his lion's skin, and carried them home to Greece, for the children of King Eurystheus to play with.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	Eurystheus	Eurystheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | some writers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **gather up** | past | Hercules | the whole race of Pygmies in Hercules's lion's skin |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Hercules *not said here* | writers *= writer* | Greece |  |  | for the children of King; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to greece=Destination |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | Hercules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **race** |  | Pygmies in Hercules's lion's skin |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event 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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