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title: So throw down your club and your other weapons; and as for that lion… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So throw down your club and your other weapons; and as for that lion's skin, I intend to have a pair of gloves made of it." Who acts: you, I. 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 67

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So throw down your club and your other weapons; and as for that lion's skin, I intend to have a pair of gloves made of it."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** throw down, intend, have, make · **To what, where:** club, pair, gloves

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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 (you, I), 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:pg976:8:67
# text = So throw down your club and your other weapons; and as for that lion's skin, I intend to have a pair of gloves made of it."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	intend	intend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | imperative | you *not said here* | your club and your other weapons |  |  |  | for that lion's skin | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a pair of gloves |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | gloves *not said here* |  |  |  | of pair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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