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title: At all events, turn back who may, I will never see Greece again, unl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At all events, turn back who may, I will never see Greece again, unless I carry with me the Golden Fleece." Who acts: events, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 89

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At all events, turn back who may, I will never see Greece again, unless I carry with me the Golden Fleece."

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**Who acts:** events, I · **What happens:** turn back, not see, carry · **To what, where:** Greece, Golden Fleece

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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 (events, I), 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:pg976:27:89
# text = At all events, turn back who may, I will never see Greece again, unless I carry with me the Golden Fleece."
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | infinitive | all events |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **see** | future | I | Greece |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer greece=Stimulus |
| 3 | **carry** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  | with me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme |

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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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