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title: His sentiments were pretty much as follows; or, at all events, somet… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His sentiments were pretty much as follows; or, at all events, something like this was probably the upshot of his speech: Who acts: sentiments, this, breathing. 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 4

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His sentiments were pretty much as follows; or, at all events, something like this was probably the upshot of his speech:

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**Who acts:** sentiments, this, breathing · **What happens:** be, speak · **To what, where:** upshot · **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 (sentiments, this, breathing), 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:pg976:9:4
# text = His sentiments were pretty much as follows; or, at all events, something like this was probably the upshot of his speech:
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sentiments	sentiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	upshot	upshot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | breathing's sentiments |  |  |  |  | follow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | the upshot |  |  |  | of breathing's speech; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** |  | breathing |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «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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