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title: For these earth-born creatures are only difficult to conquer on thei… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For these earth-born creatures are only difficult to conquer on their own ground, but may easily be managed if we can contrive to lift them into a loftier and purer region. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 100

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For these earth-born creatures are only difficult to conquer on their own ground, but may easily be managed if we can contrive to lift them into a loftier and purer region.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** bear, be, conquer, manage, contrive, lift · **To what, where:** own ground, creatures, loftier region

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 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 (we), 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:pg976:8:100
# text = For these earth-born creatures are only difficult to conquer on their own ground, but may easily be managed if we can contrive to lift them into a loftier and purer region.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	contrive	contrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	loftier	lofty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	purer	pure	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	_
34	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for this born creatures; difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conquer** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | creatures's own ground |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **manage** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **contrive** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lift** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | creatures *= creature* |  | a loftier region |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into region=Destination |

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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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