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title: If you would only stay with me of your own accord, it would make me… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you would only stay with me of your own accord, it would make me happier than the possession of a hundred such palaces as this." Who acts: you, accord. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 67

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If you would only stay with me of your own accord, it would make me happier than the possession of a hundred such palaces as this."

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**Who acts:** you, accord · **What happens:** stay, make, possess · **To what, where:** me, hundred such palaces

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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 (you, accord), 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:pg976:23:67
# text = If you would only stay with me of your own accord, it would make me happier than the possession of a hundred such palaces as this."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you |  |  |  |  | with me; of your own accord | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 2 | **make** | would | accord | me |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | hundred such palaces as this |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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