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title: "Cadmus," said the voice again, "bid those five warriors sheathe the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Cadmus," said the voice again, "bid those five warriors sheathe their swords. Who acts: Cadmus, five warriors. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 55

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"Cadmus," said the voice again, "bid those five warriors sheathe their swords.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, five warriors · **What happens:** say, bid, sheathe · **To what, where:** voice, swords · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, five warriors), 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:pg976:13:55
# text = "Cadmus," said the voice again, "bid those five warriors sheathe their swords.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sheathe	sheathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cadmus | the voice |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 2 | **bid** *in a quote* | past | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sheathe** *in a quote* | present | that five warriors | parts's swords |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=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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