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title: There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, thes… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, these strangers built huts for themselves, and were soon joined by a multitude of new settlers, who quickly formed a city. Who acts: abundance, multitude. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., par
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 49

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There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, these strangers built huts for themselves, and were soon joined by a multitude of new settlers, who quickly formed a city.

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**Who acts:** abundance, multitude · **What happens:** be, build, join, form · **To what, where:** abundance, huts, city

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (abundance, multitude), 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:pg976:11:49
# text = There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, these strangers built huts for themselves, and were soon joined by a multitude of new settlers, who quickly formed a city.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
3	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	unoccupied	unoccupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | abundance |  | there |  | of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past | abundance | huts |  |  |  | for strangers *= stranger* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hut=Material for themselves=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **join** | past · passive | a multitude of new settlers |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **form** | past | a multitude of new settlers | a city |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location city=Theme |

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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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