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title: The orator was here interrupted by a burst of irrepressible enthusia… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The orator was here interrupted by a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm; every individual Pygmy crying out that the national honor must be preserved at all hazards. Who acts: burst, individual Pygmy. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 27

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The orator was here interrupted by a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm; every individual Pygmy crying out that the national honor must be preserved at all hazards.

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**Who acts:** burst, individual Pygmy · **What happens:** interrupt, cry out, preserve, burst · **To what, where:** orator, individual Pygmy, hazards, irrepressible enthusiasm

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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 (burst, individual Pygmy), 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:pg976:9:27
# text = The orator was here interrupted by a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm; every individual Pygmy crying out that the national honor must be preserved at all hazards.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	orator	orator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	irrepressible	irrepressible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	hazards	hazard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interrupt** | past · passive | a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm | the orator |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | every individual Pygmy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **preserve** | must · passive |  | every individual Pygmy |  | all hazards |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **burst** |  |  | irrepressible enthusiasm |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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