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title: As nobody objected to this scheme, Ulysses proceeded to count the wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As nobody objected to this scheme, Ulysses proceeded to count the whole band, and found that there were forty-six men, including himself. Who acts: Ulysses, forty six men. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 63

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As nobody objected to this scheme, Ulysses proceeded to count the whole band, and found that there were forty-six men, including himself.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, forty six men · **What happens:** object, proceed, count, find, be · **To what, where:** scheme, whole band · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ulysses, forty six men), 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:pg976:15:63
# text = As nobody objected to this scheme, Ulysses proceeded to count the whole band, and found that there were forty-six men, including himself.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obl	_	_
3	objected	object	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	including	including	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **object** *speech: other* | past |  |  | this scheme |  |  | as nobody | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to scheme=Recipient |
| 2 | **proceed** | past | Ulysses |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **count** | to-infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | the whole band |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | forty six men including Ulysses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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