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title: But Ulysses lost no time in girding on his sword, and hanging his bo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ulysses lost no time in girding on his sword, and hanging his bow and quiver over his shoulders, and taking a spear in his right hand. Who acts: Ulysses, time. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 64

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But Ulysses lost no time in girding on his sword, and hanging his bow and quiver over his shoulders, and taking a spear in his right hand.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, time · **What happens:** lose, gird, hang, take · **To what, where:** sword, bow, shoulders, spear, right hand

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, time), 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:pg976:17:64
# text = But Ulysses lost no time in girding on his sword, and hanging his bow and quiver over his shoulders, and taking a spear in his right hand.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	girding	gird	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Ulysses |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gird** | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  | Ulysses's sword |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund |  | Ulysses's bow and quiver |  | Ulysses's shoulders |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | gerund |  | a spear |  | Ulysses's right hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spear=Value in hand=Location |

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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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