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title: Indeed, it is most probable that Ceres was then a thousand miles off… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, it is most probable that Ceres was then a thousand miles off, making the corn grow in some far distant country. Who acts: voice, Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 64

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Indeed, it is most probable that Ceres was then a thousand miles off, making the corn grow in some far distant country.

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**Who acts:** voice, Ceres · **What happens:** be, make, grow · **To what, where:** corn, distant country

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, Ceres), 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:pg976:20:64
# text = Indeed, it is most probable that Ceres was then a thousand miles off, making the corn grow in some far distant country.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	off	off	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | voice |  |  |  |  | indeed, probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ceres |  |  |  | then | thousand miles *obl:unmarked*; off *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Ceres *not said here* | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product |
| 4 | **grow** | present |  |  |  | some distant country |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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