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title: You and your nine and forty Argonauts, my bold Jason, are hardly num… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You and your nine and forty Argonauts, my bold Jason, are hardly numerous or strong enough to fight with such a host as will spring up." Who acts: You, nine Argonauts. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 25

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You and your nine and forty Argonauts, my bold Jason, are hardly numerous or strong enough to fight with such a host as will spring up."

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**Who acts:** You, nine Argonauts · **What happens:** argonaut, be, fight, spring up · **To what, where:** bold Jason

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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 (You, nine Argonauts), 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:pg976:28:25
# text = You and your nine and forty Argonauts, my bold Jason, are hardly numerous or strong enough to fight with such a host as will spring up."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argonaut** |  | You | my bold Jason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | your nine Argonauts |  |  |  |  | hardly, numerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | your nine Argonauts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | your nine Argonauts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with such host | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with host=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **spring up** | future | your nine Argonauts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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