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title: If not, and if the inhabitants prove as inhospitable as Polyphemus,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If not, and if the inhabitants prove as inhospitable as Polyphemus, or the Laestrygons, then there will but half of us perish, and the remainder may set sail and escape." Who acts: inhabitants, half, remainder. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with it
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 62

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If not, and if the inhabitants prove as inhospitable as Polyphemus, or the Laestrygons, then there will but half of us perish, and the remainder may set sail and escape."

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, half, remainder · **What happens:** prove, perish, set, escape · **To what, where:** Laestrygons, sail

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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 (inhabitants, half, remainder), 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:pg976:15:62
# text = If not, and if the inhabitants prove as inhospitable as Polyphemus, or the Laestrygons, then there will but half of us perish, and the remainder may set sail and escape."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	prove	prove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Laestrygons	Laestrygon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
32	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present | the inhabitants | the Laestrygons |  |  |  | inhospitable *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **perish** | future | half of us |  |  | there | then |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | may | the remainder | sail |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |
| 4 | **escape** | infinitive | the remainder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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