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title: But to-day, they brought me a pomegranate (a very dry one it was, an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But to-day, they brought me a pomegranate (a very dry one it was, and all shriveled up, till there was little left of it but seeds and skin), and having seen no fruit for so long a time, and being faint with hunger, I was tempted just to bite it. Who acts: lips. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by N
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 56

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But to-day, they brought me a pomegranate (a very dry one it was, and all shriveled up, till there was little left of it but seeds and skin), and having seen no fruit for so long a time, and being faint with hunger, I was tempted just to bite it.

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**Who acts:** lips · **What happens:** bring, shrivel up, leave, see, be, tempt · **To what, where:** pomegranate, me, all, seeds, fruit, I

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips), 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:pg976:24:56
# text = But to-day, they brought me a pomegranate (a very dry one it was, and all shriveled up, till there was little left of it but seeds and skin), and having seen no fruit for so long a time, and being faint with hunger, I was tempted just to bite it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	shriveled	shrivel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	aux	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	cop	_	_
50	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	_
57	just	just	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	xcomp	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | lips *= lip* | a pomegranate | me |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination pomegranate=Theme |
| 2 | **shrivel up** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | seeds and skin |  | there |  | of pomegranate; little *property* | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: seed=Source of it=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | gerund · perfect |  | no fruit |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with hunger; faint *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tempt** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **bite** | to-infinitive |  | fruit |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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