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title: There have been many other armies in the world that seemed to posses… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There have been many other armies in the world that seemed to possess the same fierce nature with the one which had now sprouted from the dragon's teeth; but these, in the moonlit field, were the more excusable, because they never had women for their mothers. Who acts: world, these, armies. A senten
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 1

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There have been many other armies in the world that seemed to possess the same fierce nature with the one which had now sprouted from the dragon's teeth; but these, in the moonlit field, were the more excusable, because they never had women for their mothers.

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**Who acts:** world, these, armies · **What happens:** have, be, seem, possess, sprout, not have · **To what, where:** many other armies, world, same fierce nature, one, teeth, women

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, these, armies), 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:pg976:29:1
# text = There have been many other armies in the world that seemed to possess the same fierce nature with the one which had now sprouted from the dragon's teeth; but these, in the moonlit field, were the more excusable, because they never had women for their mothers.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
32	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
42	excusable	excusable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
48	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | many other armies |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **possess** | to-infinitive | the world *not said here* | the same fierce nature |  |  |  | with the one | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nature=Theme |
| 5 | **sprout** | past · perfect · passive |  | the one |  | the dragon's teeth | now |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
| 6 | **is** | past | these |  |  |  |  | excusable *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **have** | past | armies *= army* | women |  |  |  | for armies's mothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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