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title: Jason's two spears, one in each hand, kept him from stumbling, and e… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jason's two spears, one in each hand, kept him from stumbling, and enabled him to feel his way among the hidden rocks; although every instant, he expected that his companion and himself would go down the stream, together with the driftwood of shattered trees, and the carcasses of the sheep and cow. 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 66

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Jason's two spears, one in each hand, kept him from stumbling, and enabled him to feel his way among the hidden rocks; although every instant, he expected that his companion and himself would go down the stream, together with the driftwood of shattered trees, and the carcasses of the sheep and cow.

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**Who acts:** two spears, Jason, spear · **What happens:** keep, stumble, enable, feel, expect, go down · **To what, where:** Jason, way, hidden rocks, companion, stream

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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 (two spears, Jason, spear), 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:pg976:25:66
# text = Jason's two spears, one in each hand, kept him from stumbling, and enabled him to feel his way among the hidden rocks; although every instant, he expected that his companion and himself would go down the stream, together with the driftwood of shattered trees, and the carcasses of the sheep and cow.
1	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
41	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	together	together	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	shattered	shattered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Jason's two spears | Jason |  |  |  | the carcasses of the sheep and cow *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | gerund | Jason's two spears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enable** | past | Jason's two spears *not said here* | Jason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* | Jason's way |  | the hidden rocks |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme among rock=Location |
| 5 | **expect** | past | spear | Jason's companion |  |  |  | although every instant | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme |
| 6 | **go down** | would | spear | the stream |  |  |  | with the driftwood of shattered trees; down, together *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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