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title: Phoebus (who, as I have told you, was an exquisite poet) forthwith b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Phoebus (who, as I have told you, was an exquisite poet) forthwith began to make an ode about the poor mother's grief; and, if we were to judge of his sensibility by this beautiful production, he must have been endowed with a very tender heart. Who acts: Phoebus, forthwith, we. A sentence of «Tangle
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 77

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Phoebus (who, as I have told you, was an exquisite poet) forthwith began to make an ode about the poor mother's grief; and, if we were to judge of his sensibility by this beautiful production, he must have been endowed with a very tender heart.

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**Who acts:** Phoebus, forthwith, we · **What happens:** tell, be, begin, make, judge, endow · **To what, where:** you, exquisite poet, ode, Phoebus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phoebus, forthwith, we), 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:pg976:22:77
# text = Phoebus (who, as I have told you, was an exquisite poet) forthwith began to make an ode about the poor mother's grief; and, if we were to judge of his sensibility by this beautiful production, he must have been endowed with a very tender heart.
1	Phoebus	phoebus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	appos	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ode	ode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	sensibility	sensibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux	_	_
47	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	very	very	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | Phoebus |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Phoebus | a exquisite poet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | forthwith | a exquisite poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | forthwith *not said here* | a ode |  |  |  | about the poor mother's grief | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ode=Product |
| 5 | **judge** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | we |  |  |  |  | of Phoebus's sensibility; by this beautiful production | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of sensibility=Theme |
| 6 | **endow** | must · perfect · passive |  | Phoebus |  |  |  | with a tender heart | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with heart=Theme |

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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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