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title: You remember how often our entire people have reposed in his great s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You remember how often our entire people have reposed in his great shadow, and how our little ones have played at hide-and-seek in the tangles of his hair, and how his mighty footsteps have familiarly gone to and fro among us, and never trodden upon any of our toes. Who acts: You, entire people, mig
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 13

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You remember how often our entire people have reposed in his great shadow, and how our little ones have played at hide-and-seek in the tangles of his hair, and how his mighty footsteps have familiarly gone to and fro among us, and never trodden upon any of our toes.

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**Who acts:** You, entire people, mighty footsteps, Antaeus · **What happens:** remember, repose, play, seek, go, fro · **To what, where:** great shadow, little ones, hide, tangles, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (You, entire people, mighty footsteps, Antaeus), 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:pg976:9:13
# text = You remember how often our entire people have reposed in his great shadow, and how our little ones have played at hide-and-seek in the tangles of his hair, and how his mighty footsteps have familiarly gone to and fro among us, and never trodden upon any of our toes.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	reposed	repose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tangles	tangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	familiarly	familiarly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
46	among	among	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
52	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **repose** | present · perfect | our entire people |  |  | Antaeus's great shadow |  | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location |
| 3 | **play** | present · perfect · passive |  | our little ones |  | hide |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | infinitive |  |  |  | the tangles of Antaeus's hair |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in tangle=Location |
| 5 | **go** | present · perfect | Antaeus's mighty footsteps |  |  |  |  | familiarly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fro** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among us | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **tread** | participle |  |  |  | any |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon any=Trajectory |
| 8 | **shadow** |  | Antaeus |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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