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title: And how it would have rejoiced any great captain, who was bent on co… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And how it would have rejoiced any great captain, who was bent on conquering the world, like Alexander or Napoleon, to raise a crop of armed soldiers as easily as Jason did! Who acts: Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 2

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And how it would have rejoiced any great captain, who was bent on conquering the world, like Alexander or Napoleon, to raise a crop of armed soldiers as easily as Jason did!

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**Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** rejoice, bend, conquer, raise, do · **To what, where:** nature, great captain, world, crop

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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 (Jason), 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:pg976:29:2
# text = And how it would have rejoiced any great captain, who was bent on conquering the world, like Alexander or Napoleon, to raise a crop of armed soldiers as easily as Jason did!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | would · perfect · passive |  | nature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | past · passive |  | any great captain |  |  |  | like Alexander or Napoleon | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 3 | **conquer** | gerund |  | the world |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient |
| 4 | **raise** | to-infinitive |  | a crop of armed soldiers |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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