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title: His name was Chiron; and, in spite of his odd appearance, he was a v… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His name was Chiron; and, in spite of his odd appearance, he was a very excellent teacher, and had several scholars, who afterwards did him credit by making a great figure in the world. Who acts: person, name, several scholars. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Flee
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 4

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His name was Chiron; and, in spite of his odd appearance, he was a very excellent teacher, and had several scholars, who afterwards did him credit by making a great figure in the world.

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**Who acts:** person, name, several scholars · **What happens:** be, have, do, make, name, spite · **To what, where:** Chiron, excellent teacher, spite, several scholars, person, great figure

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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 (person, name, several scholars), 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:pg976:25:4
# text = His name was Chiron; and, in spite of his odd appearance, he was a very excellent teacher, and had several scholars, who afterwards did him credit by making a great figure in the world.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Chiron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | person | a excellent teacher |  | spite of person's odd appearance |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | person's name and a excellent teacher | several scholars |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scholar=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past | several scholars | person |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | several scholars *not said here* | a great figure |  | the world |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product |
| 6 | **name** |  | person |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | person's odd appearance |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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