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title: Thou shalt die, vile wretch, and do no more mischief in the world, b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt die, vile wretch, and do no more mischief in the world, by tempting human beings into the vices which make beasts of them." Who acts: Thou, vices. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 65

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Thou shalt die, vile wretch, and do no more mischief in the world, by tempting human beings into the vices which make beasts of them."

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**Who acts:** Thou, vices · **What happens:** die, do, tempt, make · **To what, where:** vile wretch, more mischief, world, human beings, vices, beasts

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, vices), 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:pg976:18:65
# text = Thou shalt die, vile wretch, and do no more mischief in the world, by tempting human beings into the vices which make beasts of them."
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	tempting	tempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	vices	vice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	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 | **die** | shall | Thou | vile wretch |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | present | Thou *not said here* | no more mischief |  | the world |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tempt** | gerund | Thou *not said here* | human beings |  | the vices |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent being=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | present | the vices | beasts of beasts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beast=Product |

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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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