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title: You must possess far more strength than now before I can trust you t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You must possess far more strength than now before I can trust you to go to Athens, and tell King Aegeus that you are his son. Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 26

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You must possess far more strength than now before I can trust you to go to Athens, and tell King Aegeus that you are his son.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** possess, trust, go, tell, be · **To what, where:** more strength, you, Athens, King, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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:pg976:3:26
# text = You must possess far more strength than now before I can trust you to go to Athens, and tell King Aegeus that you are his son.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	iobj	_	_
22	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | must | You | more strength |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme |
| 2 | **trust** | can | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | Athens |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to athens=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | you | King's son |  |  |  |  | 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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