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title: It is enough to say, that he quite cleared that part of the country… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is enough to say, that he quite cleared that part of the country of the robbers about whom King Pittheus had been so much alarmed. Who acts: truth, Theseus. 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 76

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It is enough to say, that he quite cleared that part of the country of the robbers about whom King Pittheus had been so much alarmed.

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**Who acts:** truth, Theseus · **What happens:** be, say, clear, alarm · **To what, where:** part, King · **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 (truth, Theseus), 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:pg976:3:76
# text = It is enough to say, that he quite cleared that part of the country of the robbers about whom King Pittheus had been so much alarmed.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	Pittheus	Pittheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	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 | **is** | present | truth |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | truth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clear** | past | Theseus | that part of the country of the robbers about the country of the robbers |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent part=Source |
| 4 | **alarm** | past · perfect · passive |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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