--- title: "Clue" comes from "clew", a ball of thread; in a Greek myth the hero… — Words that changed their meaning · tree and pragmatics description: "Clue" comes from "clew", a ball of thread; in a Greek myth the hero Theseus used a ball of thread to find his way out of a maze called the labyrinth. Who acts: Clue, hero, labyrinth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clue, hero, labyrinth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:14 # text = "Clue" comes from "clew", a ball of thread; in a Greek myth the hero Theseus used a ball of thread to find his way out of a maze called the labyrinth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 clew clew NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 Theseus Theseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 maze maze NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 labyrinth labyrinth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Clue | | | clew | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from clew=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **use** | past | the hero | a ball of thread | | a Greek myth | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the hero *not said here* | hero's way | | a maze | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 4 | **call** | participle | the labyrinth | a maze *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maze=Recipient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:14`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Words that changed their meaning, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/13/) - next →: [Words that changed their meaning, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/)