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title: His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 34

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His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules.

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**Who acts:** uproar, patriotism, clapping, deep respiration, fame · **What happens:** follow, deserve, shout, have, be, not render · **To what, where:** speech, clapping, patriotism, snore, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (uproar, patriotism, clapping, deep respiration), 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:pg976:9:34
# text = His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	patriotism	patriotism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	unquestionably	unquestionably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	clapping	clapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
31	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
39	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	inaudible	inaudible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	respiration	respiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	vulgarly	vulgarly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	snore	snore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past · passive | a uproar of applause | fame's speech |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **deserve** | past | speech's patriotism and self devotion |  |  |  |  | unquestionably *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  | clapping of hands |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clapping=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | would | clapping of hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | participle | clapping of hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greatly, prolong *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **render** | past · perfect · passive | a deep respiration | patriotism |  |  |  | inaudible *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | participle | a deep respiration *not said here* | a snore |  |  |  | vulgarly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **speak** |  | fame |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **clap** |  |  | hands |  |  |  |  | nom clapping «communication 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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