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title: Jason was delighted with the oaken image, and gave the carver no res… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jason was delighted with the oaken image, and gave the carver no rest until it was completed, and set up where a figure-head has always stood, from that time to this, in the vessel's prow. Who acts: Jason, figure head. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 91

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Jason was delighted with the oaken image, and gave the carver no rest until it was completed, and set up where a figure-head has always stood, from that time to this, in the vessel's prow.

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**Who acts:** Jason, figure head · **What happens:** be, give, complete, set up, stand · **To what, where:** carver, rest, prow

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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 (Jason, figure head), 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:pg976:26:91
# text = Jason was delighted with the oaken image, and gave the carver no rest until it was completed, and set up where a figure-head has always stood, from that time to this, in the vessel's prow.
1	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	carver	carver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jason |  |  |  |  | with the oaken image; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | Jason *not said here* | the carver |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent carver=Recipient rest=Theme |
| 3 | **complete** | past · passive |  | rest |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **set up** | infinitive | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | present · perfect | a figure head |  |  | the vessel's prow | time | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prow=Location |

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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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