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title: One of their most eloquent orators (and a valiant warrior enough, be… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of their most eloquent orators (and a valiant warrior enough, besides, though hardly so good at any other weapon as he was with his tongue) climbed upon a toadstool, and, from that elevated position, addressed the multitude. Who acts: breathing, eloquent orators. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales»
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 3

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One of their most eloquent orators (and a valiant warrior enough, besides, though hardly so good at any other weapon as he was with his tongue) climbed upon a toadstool, and, from that elevated position, addressed the multitude.

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**Who acts:** breathing, eloquent orators · **What happens:** be, climb, elevate, address · **To what, where:** One, toadstool, multitude, elevated position

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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 (breathing, eloquent orators), 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:pg976:9:3
# text = One of their most eloquent orators (and a valiant warrior enough, besides, though hardly so good at any other weapon as he was with his tongue) climbed upon a toadstool, and, from that elevated position, addressed the multitude.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	orators	orator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	though	though	ADV	RB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
31	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	toadstool	toadstool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
40	elevated	elevate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | breathing |  |  |  |  | with breathing's tongue | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | past | heads's eloquent orators | One |  | a toadstool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon toadstool=Trajectory |
| 3 | **elevate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **address** | past | heads's eloquent orators *not said here* | the multitude |  | that elevated position |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Destination |

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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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