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title: Shall we not rather compel him to leave his bones here on our soil,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall we not rather compel him to leave his bones here on our soil, by the side of our slain brother's bones? Who acts: we, our. 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 23

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Shall we not rather compel him to leave his bones here on our soil, by the side of our slain brother's bones?

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**Who acts:** we, our · **What happens:** not compel, leave, soil · **To what, where:** world, bones, soil

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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 (we, our), 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:pg976:9:23
# text = Shall we not rather compel him to leave his bones here on our soil, by the side of our slain brother's bones?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	compel	compel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **compel** | shall | we | world |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | world's bones |  | our soil; here |  | by the side of our slain brother's bones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme on soil=Location |
| 3 | **soil** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «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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