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title: It would hardly be doing yourself justice, were you to bring me acqu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It would hardly be doing yourself justice, were you to bring me acquainted with them, sitting here on this snow bank!" Who acts: study, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 31

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It would hardly be doing yourself justice, were you to bring me acquainted with them, sitting here on this snow bank!"

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**Who acts:** study, you · **What happens:** do, bring, acquaint, sit · **To what, where:** yourself, me, snow bank

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (study, you), 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:pg976:2:31
# text = It would hardly be doing yourself justice, were you to bring me acquainted with them, sitting here on this snow bank!"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would · progressive | study | yourself |  |  |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with stories *= story* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | this snow bank; here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=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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