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title: There were about fifty of these unclean beasts in the whole herd; an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were about fifty of these unclean beasts in the whole herd; and though the greater part were hogs by birth and education, there was wonderfully little difference to be seen betwixt them and their new brethren, who had so recently worn the human shape. Who acts: fifty, part hogs, new brethren. 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 80

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There were about fifty of these unclean beasts in the whole herd; and though the greater part were hogs by birth and education, there was wonderfully little difference to be seen betwixt them and their new brethren, who had so recently worn the human shape.

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**Who acts:** fifty, part hogs, new brethren · **What happens:** be about, be, see, have · **To what, where:** part hogs, little difference

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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 (fifty, part hogs, new brethren), 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:pg976:18:80
# text = There were about fifty of these unclean beasts in the whole herd; and though the greater part were hogs by birth and education, there was wonderfully little difference to be seen betwixt them and their new brethren, who had so recently worn the human shape.
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	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
34	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	worn	worn	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be about** | past | fifty of this unclean beasts in the whole herd |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | part hogs |  |  |  | by birth and education | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | part hogs | little difference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | fifty of this unclean beasts in the whole herd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | betwixt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **have** | past | birth's new brethren |  |  |  |  | worn the human shape; recently *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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