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title: You will remember (what Theseus unfortunately forgot) that his fathe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You will remember (what Theseus unfortunately forgot) that his father, King Aegeus, had enjoined it upon him to hoist sunshiny sails, instead of black ones, in case he should overcome the Minotaur, and return victorious. Who acts: You, Theseus, father. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel H
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 87

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You will remember (what Theseus unfortunately forgot) that his father, King Aegeus, had enjoined it upon him to hoist sunshiny sails, instead of black ones, in case he should overcome the Minotaur, and return victorious.

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**Who acts:** You, Theseus, father · **What happens:** remember, forget, enjoin, hoist, overcome, return · **To what, where:** misfortune, sunshiny sails, Minotaur · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, Theseus, father), 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:pg976:6:87
# text = You will remember (what Theseus unfortunately forgot) that his father, King Aegeus, had enjoined it upon him to hoist sunshiny sails, instead of black ones, in case he should overcome the Minotaur, and return victorious.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	enjoined	enjoin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hoist	hoist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	sunshiny	sunshiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
33	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	fixed	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | future | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | unfortunately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **enjoin** | past · perfect | Theseus's father | misfortune |  |  |  | upon Theseus | tree rules |
| 4 | **hoist** | to-infinitive | Theseus's father *not said here* | sunshiny sails and black ones |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme |
| 5 | **overcome** | should | father | the Minotaur |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot minotaur=Theme |
| 6 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | victorious *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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