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title: There were four other young women, who joined their hands and danced… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were four other young women, who joined their hands and danced merrily forward, making gestures of obeisance to the strangers. Who acts: four other young women, obeisance. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 64

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There were four other young women, who joined their hands and danced merrily forward, making gestures of obeisance to the strangers.

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**Who acts:** four other young women, obeisance · **What happens:** be, join, dance, make, gesture · **To what, where:** hands, gestures

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four other young women, obeisance), 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:pg976:16:64
# text = There were four other young women, who joined their hands and danced merrily forward, making gestures of obeisance to the strangers.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | four other young women |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | past | four other young women | doors's hands |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **dance** | past | four other young women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward, merrily *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | four other young women *not said here* | gestures of obeisance |  |  |  | to the strangers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product |
| 5 | **gesture** |  | obeisance |  |  |  |  |  | nom gesture «act intransitive»: of=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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