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title: Among the rest, a mariner affirmed, that, many years before, in a di… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the rest, a mariner affirmed, that, many years before, in a distant country, he had heard a rumor about a white bull, which came swimming across the sea with a child on his back, dressed up in flowers that were blighted by the sea water. Who acts: mariner, that, white bull, sea water. A senten
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 7

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Among the rest, a mariner affirmed, that, many years before, in a distant country, he had heard a rumor about a white bull, which came swimming across the sea with a child on his back, dressed up in flowers that were blighted by the sea water.

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**Who acts:** mariner, that, white bull, sea water · **What happens:** affirm, year, hear, come, swim, dress up · **To what, where:** rumor, distant country, sea, flowers

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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 (mariner, that, white bull, sea water), 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:pg976:12:7
# text = Among the rest, a mariner affirmed, that, many years before, in a distant country, he had heard a rumor about a white bull, which came swimming across the sea with a child on his back, dressed up in flowers that were blighted by the sea water.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mariner	mariner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	affirmed	affirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rumor	rumor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affirm** | participle | a mariner |  |  |  |  | among the rest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **year** |  | that |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | mariner | a rumor |  | a distant country |  | about a white bull | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | past | a white bull |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **swim** | gerund | a white bull *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | with a child on mariner's back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sea=Trajectory |
| 6 | **dress up** | participle | mariner *not said here* |  |  | flowers |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **blight** | past · passive | the sea water | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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