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title: We and our forefathers have dwelt in friendship with him, and held a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We and our forefathers have dwelt in friendship with him, and held affectionate intercourse as man to man, through immemorial generations. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 12

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We and our forefathers have dwelt in friendship with him, and held affectionate intercourse as man to man, through immemorial generations.

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**What happens:** dwell, hold · **To what, where:** We, friendship, affectionate intercourse, immemorial generations

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg976:9:12
# text = We and our forefathers have dwelt in friendship with him, and held affectionate intercourse as man to man, through immemorial generations.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	immemorial	immemorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present · perfect · passive |  | We |  | friendship with Antaeus |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | past |  | affectionate intercourse |  |  | through immemorial generations | as man to man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent intercourse=Theme through generation=Location |

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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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