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title: Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?--Or do you meditate the discover… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?--Or do you meditate the discovery of unknown islands?--or what other cause has procured me the happiness of seeing you at my court?" Who acts: Pray, you, happiness. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its depen
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 8

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Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?--Or do you meditate the discovery of unknown islands?--or what other cause has procured me the happiness of seeing you at my court?"

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**Who acts:** Pray, you, happiness · **What happens:** be, meditate, procure, see, discover · **To what, where:** pleasure voyage, discovery, other cause, you, court, unknown islands

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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 (Pray, you, happiness), 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:pg976:28:8
# text = Pray, are you on a pleasure voyage?--Or do you meditate the discovery of unknown islands?--or what other cause has procured me the happiness of seeing you at my court?"
1	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	meditate	meditate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pray |  |  | a pleasure voyage |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meditate** | present · do-support | you | the discovery of unknown islands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **procure** | present · perfect · passive |  | other cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the happiness *not said here* | you |  | my court |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 5 | **discover** |  |  | unknown islands |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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