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title: I know not how far Jason had traveled, when he came to a turbulent r… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I know not how far Jason had traveled, when he came to a turbulent river, which rushed right across his pathway, with specks of white foam among its black eddies, hurrying tumultuously onward, and roaring angrily as it went. Who acts: I, Jason, turbulent river, heroic. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tale
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 23

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I know not how far Jason had traveled, when he came to a turbulent river, which rushed right across his pathway, with specks of white foam among its black eddies, hurrying tumultuously onward, and roaring angrily as it went.

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**Who acts:** I, Jason, turbulent river, heroic · **What happens:** not know, travel, come, rush, hurry, roar · **To what, where:** turbulent river, pathway

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Jason, turbulent river, heroic), 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:pg976:25:23
# text = I know not how far Jason had traveled, when he came to a turbulent river, which rushed right across his pathway, with specks of white foam among its black eddies, hurrying tumultuously onward, and roaring angrily as it went.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	traveled	travel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	turbulent	turbulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	eddies	eddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
36	tumultuously	tumultuously	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
41	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **travel** | past · perfect | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Jason |  |  | a turbulent river |  | with specks of white foam among foam's black eddies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **rush** | past | a turbulent river |  |  | Jason's pathway |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pathway=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hurry** | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **roar** | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | past | heroic |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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