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title: He bowed, and, making a gesture for silence, wound up his harangue i… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He bowed, and, making a gesture for silence, wound up his harangue in the following admirable manner: Who acts: glory. 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 28

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He bowed, and, making a gesture for silence, wound up his harangue in the following admirable manner:

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**Who acts:** glory · **What happens:** bow, make, wound up, follow, harangue · **To what, where:** gesture, harangue, admirable manner

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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 (glory), 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:pg976:9:28
# text = He bowed, and, making a gesture for silence, wound up his harangue in the following admirable manner:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	harangue	harangue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	case	_	_
19	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | glory |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | a gesture |  |  |  | for silence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent gesture=Product for silence=Asset |
| 3 | **wound up** | infinitive | glory *not said here* | glory's harangue |  | the admirable manner |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus harangue=Experiencer |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **harangue** |  | glory |  |  |  |  |  | nom harangue «communication 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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