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title: For my part, I am answerable for the fate of these poor mariners, wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For my part, I am answerable for the fate of these poor mariners, who have stood by my side in battle, and been so often drenched to the skin, along with me, by the same tempestuous surges. Who acts: I, poor mariners, same tempestuous surges. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 71

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For my part, I am answerable for the fate of these poor mariners, who have stood by my side in battle, and been so often drenched to the skin, along with me, by the same tempestuous surges.

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**Who acts:** I, poor mariners, same tempestuous surges · **What happens:** be, stand, drench, fate · **To what, where:** battle, poor mariners

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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 (I, poor mariners, same tempestuous surges), 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:pg976:17:71
# text = For my part, I am answerable for the fate of these poor mariners, who have stood by my side in battle, and been so often drenched to the skin, along with me, by the same tempestuous surges.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	answerable	answerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	drenched	drench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	along	along	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	tempestuous	tempestuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	surges	surge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for my part; for the fate of this poor mariners; answerable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | present · perfect | this poor mariners |  |  | battle |  | by my side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 3 | **drench** | participle · passive | the same tempestuous surges |  |  |  |  | to the skin; along me; often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fate** |  |  | this poor mariners |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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