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title: Yes; they are six-armed giants, as you say, and these are the enemie… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes; they are six-armed giants, as you say, and these are the enemies whom I and my subjects have to contend with." Who acts: eyes, six armed giants, I, enemies. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 46

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Yes; they are six-armed giants, as you say, and these are the enemies whom I and my subjects have to contend with."

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**Who acts:** eyes, six armed giants, I, enemies · **What happens:** be, say, have, contend · **To what, where:** six armed giants, enemies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, six armed giants, I, enemies), 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:pg976:27:46
# text = Yes; they are six-armed giants, as you say, and these are the enemies whom I and my subjects have to contend with."
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | eyes *= eye* | six armed giants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | six armed giants |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | this enemies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | this enemies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **contend** | to-infinitive | this enemies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «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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