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title: The men and women over whom he rules are in the place of children to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The men and women over whom he rules are in the place of children to him; and he can seldom spare time to love his own children as other parents do. Who acts: men, man, other parents. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 9

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The men and women over whom he rules are in the place of children to him; and he can seldom spare time to love his own children as other parents do.

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**Who acts:** men, man, other parents · **What happens:** be, spare, love, do · **To what, where:** place, own children

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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 (men, man, other parents), 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:pg976:3:9
# text = The men and women over whom he rules are in the place of children to him; and he can seldom spare time to love his own children as other parents do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | present | the men and women |  |  | the place |  | of children to son | tree rules |
| 2 | **spare** | can | man |  |  |  | time | seldom *property* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | son's own children |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | present | other parents |  |  |  |  |  | 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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