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title: The last survivor, the bravest and strongest of the whole, had just… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The last survivor, the bravest and strongest of the whole, had just force enough to wave his crimson sword over his head and give a shout of exultation, crying, "Victory! Who acts: last survivor. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 20

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The last survivor, the bravest and strongest of the whole, had just force enough to wave his crimson sword over his head and give a shout of exultation, crying, "Victory!

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**Who acts:** last survivor · **What happens:** have, wave, give, cry, shout · **To what, where:** force, crimson sword, head, shout, Victory, exultation

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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 (last survivor), 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:pg976:29:20
# text = The last survivor, the bravest and strongest of the whole, had just force enough to wave his crimson sword over his head and give a shout of exultation, crying, "Victory!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	survivor	survivor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	exultation	exultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the last survivor | force |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient |
| 2 | **wave** | to-infinitive | the last survivor *not said here* | survivor's crimson sword |  | survivor's head |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | the last survivor *not said here* | a shout of exultation |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the last survivor *not said here* | Victory |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Topic |
| 5 | **shout** |  |  | exultation |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication 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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