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title: Well, I have not deserved it of you, after keeping you a prisoner fo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, I have not deserved it of you, after keeping you a prisoner for so many months, and starving you besides. 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 85

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Well, I have not deserved it of you, after keeping you a prisoner for so many months, and starving you besides.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not deserve, keep, starve · **To what, where:** face, you

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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:pg976:23:85
# text = Well, I have not deserved it of you, after keeping you a prisoner for so many months, and starving you besides.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deserve** | present · perfect | I | face |  |  |  | of you | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | you |  |  | month |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme prisoner=Attribute |
| 3 | **starve** | gerund |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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