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title: At the same time, he belched forth a tremendous roar, in which there… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time, he belched forth a tremendous roar, in which there was something like the words of human language, but all disjointed and shaken to pieces by passing through the gullet of a miserably enraged brute. Who acts: Minotaur. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Mi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 36

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At the same time, he belched forth a tremendous roar, in which there was something like the words of human language, but all disjointed and shaken to pieces by passing through the gullet of a miserably enraged brute.

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**Who acts:** Minotaur · **What happens:** belch, disjoint, shake, pass, enrage, word · **To what, where:** tremendous roar, all, pieces, gullet, human language

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg976:6:36
# text = At the same time, he belched forth a tremendous roar, in which there was something like the words of human language, but all disjointed and shaken to pieces by passing through the gullet of a miserably enraged brute.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	belched	belch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	disjointed	disjoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gullet	gullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	brute	brute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belch** | past | Minotaur | a tremendous roar |  |  | time | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roar=Source |
| 2 | **disjoint** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | participle |  |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to piece=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  | the gullet of a enraged brute |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gullet=Location |
| 5 | **enrage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | miserably *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | human language |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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