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title: "Let the people of Athens this year draw lots for only six young men… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Let the people of Athens this year draw lots for only six young men, instead of seven," said he, "I will myself be the seventh; and let the Minotaur devour me if he can!" Who acts: man, Minotaur. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 99

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"Let the people of Athens this year draw lots for only six young men, instead of seven," said he, "I will myself be the seventh; and let the Minotaur devour me if he can!"

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**Who acts:** man, Minotaur · **What happens:** let, say, be, devour · **To what, where:** draw lots, people, Minotaur, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Minotaur), 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:pg976:4:99
# text = "Let the people of Athens this year draw lots for only six young men, instead of seven," said he, "I will myself be the seventh; and let the Minotaur devour me if he can!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	nsubj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this draw lots | the people of Athens |  |  | for six young men | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent people=Recipient lot=Theme for man=Asset |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | man |  |  |  |  | seventh *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the Minotaur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **devour** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Minotaur *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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