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title: He was soon so nigh, that there could be no possible mistake about t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was soon so nigh, that there could be no possible mistake about the matter. Who acts: stranger. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 19

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He was soon so nigh, that there could be no possible mistake about the matter.

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**Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** possible mistake

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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 (stranger), 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:pg976:8:19
# text = He was soon so nigh, that there could be no possible mistake about the matter.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | stranger | no possible mistake |  |  |  | about the matter; nigh *property* | tree rules |

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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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