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title: Espying the two winged sons of the North Wind (who were disporting t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Espying the two winged sons of the North Wind (who were disporting themselves in the moonlight, a few hundred feet aloft), Jason bade them tell the rest of the Argonauts to embark as speedily as possible. Who acts: Espying, North Wind, sons. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, T
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 109

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Espying the two winged sons of the North Wind (who were disporting themselves in the moonlight, a few hundred feet aloft), Jason bade them tell the rest of the Argonauts to embark as speedily as possible.

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**Who acts:** Espying, North Wind, sons · **What happens:** espy, wing, disport, tell, embark · **To what, where:** two, sons, moonlight, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Espying, North Wind, sons), 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:pg976:29:109
# text = Espying the two winged sons of the North Wind (who were disporting themselves in the moonlight, a few hundred feet aloft), Jason bade them tell the rest of the Argonauts to embark as speedily as possible.
1	Espying	espy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
4	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	disporting	disport	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	embark	embark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **espy** | gerund |  | the two |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wing** | past | Espying |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disport** | past · progressive | the North Wind and Jason bade | sons *= son* |  | the moonlight |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | sons of the North Wind and Jason bade | the rest of the Argonauts |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **embark** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | speedily *property* | tree rules |

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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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