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title: In his oration for the bachelor's degree, he gives me to understand,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In his oration for the bachelor's degree, he gives me to understand, he will treat of the classical myths, viewed in the aspect of baby stories, and has a great mind to discuss the expediency of using up the whole of ancient history, for the same purpose. Who acts: Mr., expediency. A sentence of «Ta
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 71

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In his oration for the bachelor's degree, he gives me to understand, he will treat of the classical myths, viewed in the aspect of baby stories, and has a great mind to discuss the expediency of using up the whole of ancient history, for the same purpose.

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**Who acts:** Mr., expediency · **What happens:** give, understand, treat, view, have, discuss · **To what, where:** me, oration, classical myths, aspect, great mind, expediency

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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 (Mr., expediency), 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:pg976:2:71
# text = In his oration for the bachelor's degree, he gives me to understand, he will treat of the classical myths, viewed in the aspect of baby stories, and has a great mind to discuss the expediency of using up the whole of ancient history, for the same purpose.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	oration	oration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	viewed	view	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	expediency	expediency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Mr. |  | me | Mr.'s oration for the bachelor's degree |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive | Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **treat** | future | Mr. |  |  |  |  | of the classical myths | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **view** | participle |  | the classical myths *not said here* |  | the aspect of baby stories |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | a great mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 6 | **discuss** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | the expediency |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expediency=Topic |
| 7 | **use up** | gerund | the expediency *not said here* | the whole |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=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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