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title: If I were ever so hungry, I should never think of eating such a mise… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I were ever so hungry, I should never think of eating such a miserable, dry pomegranate as that." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 101

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If I were ever so hungry, I should never think of eating such a miserable, dry pomegranate as that."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, not think, eat · **To what, where:** miserable dry pomegranate

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (I), 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:pg976:23:101
# text = If I were ever so hungry, I should never think of eating such a miserable, dry pomegranate as that."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | ever | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | I *not said here* | such miserable dry pomegranate |  |  |  | as that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=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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