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title: In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many centuries ago, the valiant Pygmies avenged the death of the Giant Antaeus by scaring away the mighty Hercules. Who acts: history, valiant Pygmies, Giant Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies.,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 84

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In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many centuries ago, the valiant Pygmies avenged the death of the Giant Antaeus by scaring away the mighty Hercules.

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**Who acts:** history, valiant Pygmies, Giant Antaeus · **What happens:** stand, record, avenge, scare away, die · **To what, where:** that, histories, death, mighty Hercules

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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 (history, valiant Pygmies, Giant Antaeus), 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:pg976:9:84
# text = In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many centuries ago, the valiant Pygmies avenged the death of the Giant Antaeus by scaring away the mighty Hercules.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
17	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	scaring	scare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | history | that |  | that histories |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **record** | participle | history *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **avenge** | past | the valiant Pygmies | the death of the Giant Antaeus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **scare away** | gerund | the valiant Pygmies *not said here* | the mighty Hercules |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hercules=Experiencer |
| 5 | **die** |  | the Giant Antaeus |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «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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