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title: You and all of us have seen what a public calamity has been brought… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You and all of us have seen what a public calamity has been brought to pass, and what an insult has here been offered to the majesty of our nation. 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 6

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You and all of us have seen what a public calamity has been brought to pass, and what an insult has here been offered to the majesty of our nation.

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**What happens:** see, bring, pass, offer · **To what, where:** You, public calamity, insult

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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: 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:pg976:9:6
# text = You and all of us have seen what a public calamity has been brought to pass, and what an insult has here been offered to the majesty of our nation.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | a public calamity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | present · perfect · passive |  | a insult |  | here |  | to the majesty of our nation | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal what=Theme |

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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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