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title: The husbandmen plowed and planted as usual; but there lay the rich b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The husbandmen plowed and planted as usual; but there lay the rich black furrows, all as barren as a desert of sand. Who acts: husbandmen. 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 38

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The husbandmen plowed and planted as usual; but there lay the rich black furrows, all as barren as a desert of sand.

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**Who acts:** husbandmen · **What happens:** plow, plant, lie · **To what, where:** husbandmen, rich black furrows

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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 (husbandmen), 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:pg976:23:38
# text = The husbandmen plowed and planted as usual; but there lay the rich black furrows, all as barren as a desert of sand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husbandmen	husbandman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	plowed	plow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	furrows	furrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plow** | participle |  | the husbandmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **plant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as usual | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the husbandmen | the rich black furrows |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location furrow=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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