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title: "Sacred oracle of Delphi," said he, "whither shall I go next in ques… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sacred oracle of Delphi," said he, "whither shall I go next in quest of my dear sister Europa?" Who acts: Sacred oracle, Delphi, dear sister. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 23

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"Sacred oracle of Delphi," said he, "whither shall I go next in quest of my dear sister Europa?"

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**Who acts:** Sacred oracle, Delphi, dear sister · **What happens:** say, go, quest · **To what, where:** quest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Sacred oracle, Delphi, dear sister), 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:pg976:12:23
# text = "Sacred oracle of Delphi," said he, "whither shall I go next in quest of my dear sister Europa?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	next	next	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Sacred oracle of Delphi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | Delphi |  |  | quest of my dear sister |  | next, whither *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location |
| 3 | **quest** *in a quote* |  | my dear sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition 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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