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title: For two days, therefore, the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For two days, therefore, the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet, and either staid on board of their vessel, or merely crept along under the cliffs that bordered the shore; and to keep themselves alive, they dug shellfish out of the sand, and sought for any little rill of fresh water that might be
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 10

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For two days, therefore, the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet, and either staid on board of their vessel, or merely crept along under the cliffs that bordered the shore; and to keep themselves alive, they dug shellfish out of the sand, and sought for any little rill of fresh water that might be running towards the sea.

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**Who acts:** poor worn voyagers, cliffs, voyagers, fresh water · **What happens:** keep, creep, border, dig, seek, run · **To what, where:** cliffs, shore, voyagers, shellfish, sand, sea

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor worn voyagers, cliffs, voyagers, fresh 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:pg976:15:10
# text = For two days, therefore, the poor weather-worn voyagers kept quiet, and either staid on board of their vessel, or merely crept along under the cliffs that bordered the shore; and to keep themselves alive, they dug shellfish out of the sand, and sought for any little rill of fresh water that might be running towards the sea.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	staid	staid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	crept	creep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
28	along	along	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bordered	border	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
45	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
55	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	rill	rill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
61	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	aux	_	_
63	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	acl:relcl	_	_
64	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the poor worn voyagers |  |  |  | day | quiet, therefore *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **creep** | participle |  |  |  | the cliffs |  | merely *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cliff=Trajectory |
| 3 | **border** | past | the cliffs | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the poor worn voyagers *not said here* | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 5 | **dig** | past | voyagers *= voyager* | shellfish |  | the sand |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shellfish=Theme out sand=Location |
| 6 | **seek** | past | the poor worn voyagers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for any little rill of fresh water | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for rill=Theme |
| 7 | **run** | might · progressive | fresh water |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sea=Destination |

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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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