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title: The right arm was extended, as if pointing onward. — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The right arm was extended, as if pointing onward. Who acts: right arm. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 89

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The right arm was extended, as if pointing onward.

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**Who acts:** right arm · **What happens:** be, point

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right arm), 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:pg976:26:89
# text = The right arm was extended, as if pointing onward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the right arm |  |  |  |  | extended *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **point** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund | the right arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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