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title: "We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave comra… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave comrades. " Who acts: We, nine brave comrades. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 1

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"We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave comrades. "

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**Who acts:** We, nine brave comrades · **What happens:** turn back, cry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, nine brave comrades), 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:pg976:28:1
# text = "We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave comrades. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** *in a quote* | future | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | his nine brave comrades |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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