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title: Conquer or die!" and a hundred other outcries, such as men always be… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Conquer or die!" and a hundred other outcries, such as men always bellow forth on a battle field, and which these dragon people seemed to have at their tongues' ends. Who acts: you, hundred other outcries, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, w
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 8

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Conquer or die!" and a hundred other outcries, such as men always bellow forth on a battle field, and which these dragon people seemed to have at their tongues' ends.

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**Who acts:** you, hundred other outcries, people · **What happens:** conquer, die, bellow, dragon, seem, have · **To what, where:** battle field, dragon, ends

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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 (you, hundred other outcries, people), 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:pg976:29:8
# text = Conquer or die!" and a hundred other outcries, such as men always bellow forth on a battle field, and which these dragon people seemed to have at their tongues' ends.
1	Conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	outcries	outcry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	bellow	bellow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **bellow** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  | a battle field |  | such men; always, forth *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Location |
| 4 | **dragon** *in a quote* |  | hundred other outcries |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | people | this dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  | at people's tongues's ends |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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