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title: My proposal is, therefore, that we divide ourselves into two equal p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My proposal is, therefore, that we divide ourselves into two equal parties, and ascertain, by drawing lots, which of the two shall go to the palace, and beg for food and assistance. Who acts: proposal, we, lots, My. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 60

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My proposal is, therefore, that we divide ourselves into two equal parties, and ascertain, by drawing lots, which of the two shall go to the palace, and beg for food and assistance.

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**Who acts:** proposal, we, lots, My · **What happens:** be, divide, ascertain, draw, go, propose · **To what, where:** ourselves, two equal parties, lots, palace

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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 (proposal, we, lots, My), 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:pg976:15:60
# text = My proposal is, therefore, that we divide ourselves into two equal parties, and ascertain, by drawing lots, which of the two shall go to the palace, and beg for food and assistance.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	divide	divide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | My proposal |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** | present | we | ourselves |  | two equal parties |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme |
| 3 | **ascertain** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | gerund | we *not said here* | lots |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | shall | lots |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **propose** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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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