--- title: I put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worth… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worthy of our national character, and calculated to increase, rather than diminish, the glory which our ancestors have transmitted to us, and which we ourselves have proudly vindicated in our warfare with the cranes." Who acts: I, respon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pygmies., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/) / 26 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 26 I put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worthy of our national character, and calculated to increase, rather than diminish, the glory which our ancestors have transmitted to us, and which we ourselves have proudly vindicated in our warfare with the cranes." **Who acts:** I, response · **What happens:** put, be, calculate, increase, diminish, transmit · **To what, where:** example, you, full confidence, glory, us, we 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 (I, response), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:9:26 # text = I put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worthy of our national character, and calculated to increase, rather than diminish, the glory which our ancestors have transmitted to us, and which we ourselves have proudly vindicated in our warfare with the cranes." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 calculated calculate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 28 cc _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 diminish diminish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 transmitted transmit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 obj _ _ 42 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 ourselves ourselves AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 44 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 aux _ _ 45 proudly proudly ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 vindicated vindicate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 warfare warfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 cranes crane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | I | example | you | full confidence of a response | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in confidence=Destination | | 2 | **is** | shall | a response | | | | | of our national character; worthy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **calculate** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **increase** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **diminish** | infinitive | | the glory | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer glory=Patient | | 6 | **transmit** | present · perfect · passive | | the glory | us | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to we=Destination | | 7 | **vindicate** | perfect · passive | | we | | our warfare with the cranes | | proudly *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **confide** | | | a response | | | | | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/27/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/)