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title: But Ulysses would not be pacified until Circe had taken a solemn oat… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ulysses would not be pacified until Circe had taken a solemn oath to change back his companions, and as many others as he should direct, from their present forms of beast or bird into their former shapes of men. Who acts: Ulysses, others. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 75

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But Ulysses would not be pacified until Circe had taken a solemn oath to change back his companions, and as many others as he should direct, from their present forms of beast or bird into their former shapes of men.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, others · **What happens:** not pacify, take, change back, direct, form · **To what, where:** Ulysses, Circe, companions, many others, present forms, beast

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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 (Ulysses, others), 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:pg976:18:75
# text = But Ulysses would not be pacified until Circe had taken a solemn oath to change back his companions, and as many others as he should direct, from their present forms of beast or bird into their former shapes of men.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	pacified	pacify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pacify** | would · passive |  | Ulysses |  |  |  | many others *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | Circe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme oath=Destination |
| 3 | **change back** | to-infinitive |  | Ulysses's companions |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient |
| 4 | **direct** | should | Ulysses | many others *not said here* |  | others's present forms of beast or bird |  | into beasts's former shapes of men | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
| 5 | **form** |  | others *= other* | beast or bird |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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