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title: But these great lubberly fellows resemble mountains, not only in bul… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But these great lubberly fellows resemble mountains, not only in bulk, but in their disinclination to move. Who acts: these, great lubberly fellows. 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 48

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But these great lubberly fellows resemble mountains, not only in bulk, but in their disinclination to move.

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**Who acts:** these, great lubberly fellows · **What happens:** fellow, resemble, move · **To what, where:** mountains

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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 (these, great lubberly fellows), 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:pg976:8:48
# text = But these great lubberly fellows resemble mountains, not only in bulk, but in their disinclination to move.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	lubberly	lubberly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	disinclination	disinclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fellow** |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | present | great lubberly fellows | mountains and bulk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | great lubberly fellows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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