--- title: There was a debate whether the national honor did not demand that a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was a debate whether the national honor did not demand that a herald should be sent with a trumpet, to stand over the ear of Hercules, and after blowing a blast right into it, to defy him to the combat by formal proclamation. Who acts: debate, national honor. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/36/) [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/) / 36 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 36 There was a debate whether the national honor did not demand that a herald should be sent with a trumpet, to stand over the ear of Hercules, and after blowing a blast right into it, to defy him to the combat by formal proclamation. **Who acts:** debate, national honor · **What happens:** be, not demand, send, stand, blow, defy · **To what, where:** herald, ear, blast, Hercules · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (debate, national honor), 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:pg976:9:36 # text = There was a debate whether the national honor did not demand that a herald should be sent with a trumpet, to stand over the ear of Hercules, and after blowing a blast right into it, to defy him to the combat by formal proclamation. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 demand demand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 herald herald NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Hercules Hercules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 31 after after SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 right right ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 defy defy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 combat combat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 by by ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 proclamation proclamation NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a debate | | | there | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **demand** *speech: request* | past · do-support | the national honor | | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 3 | **send** | should · passive | | a herald | | | | with a trumpet | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | to-infinitive | | | | the ear of Hercules | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over ear=Location | | 5 | **blow** | gerund | | a blast | | herald | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent blast=Material into it=Product | | 6 | **defy** | to-infinitive | | Hercules | | | | to the combat; by formal proclamation | tree rules | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/37/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/)