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title: The same number were ordered to clamber upon Hercules, some with spa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The same number were ordered to clamber upon Hercules, some with spades to dig his eyes out, and others with bundles of hay, and all manner of rubbish with which they intended to plug up his mouth and nostrils, so that he might perish for lack of breath. Who acts: same number, eyes, number. A senten
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 43

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The same number were ordered to clamber upon Hercules, some with spades to dig his eyes out, and others with bundles of hay, and all manner of rubbish with which they intended to plug up his mouth and nostrils, so that he might perish for lack of breath.

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**Who acts:** same number, eyes, number · **What happens:** order, clamber, dig out, intend, plug up, perish · **To what, where:** same number, Hercules, eyes, mouth, breath

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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 (same number, eyes, number), 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:pg976:9:43
# text = The same number were ordered to clamber upon Hercules, some with spades to dig his eyes out, and others with bundles of hay, and all manner of rubbish with which they intended to plug up his mouth and nostrils, so that he might perish for lack of breath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	clamber	clamber	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spades	spade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	plug	plug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	48	mark	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past · passive |  | the same number |  |  |  | others with bundles of hay *obl*; all manner of rubbish *obl* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **clamber** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the same number *not said here* | Hercules |  |  |  | with spades | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig out** | to-infinitive | the same number *not said here* | Hercules's eyes |  |  |  | out *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **intend** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | with rubbish | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **plug up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | Hercules's mouth and nostrils |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination |
| 6 | **perish** | might | number |  |  |  |  | for lack of breath | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **lack** |  |  | breath |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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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