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title: He took upon himself the vows of the Cross, and departed for the Hol… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He took upon himself the vows of the Cross, and departed for the Holy Land, in the hope that the scourge he had brought upon his district would disappear. Who acts: visitation, scourge. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 110

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He took upon himself the vows of the Cross, and departed for the Holy Land, in the hope that the scourge he had brought upon his district would disappear.

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**Who acts:** visitation, scourge · **What happens:** take, depart, bring, disappear, vow · **To what, where:** vows, hope, scourge, Cross

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitation, scourge), 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:pg14241:32:110
# text = He took upon himself the vows of the Cross, and departed for the Holy Land, in the hope that the scourge he had brought upon his district would disappear.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	16	compound	_	_
16	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	scourge	scourge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | visitation | the vows of the Cross |  |  |  | upon visitation | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | participle | visitation *not said here* |  |  | the hope |  | for the Holy Land | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect | visitation | the scourge *not said here* |  |  |  | upon visitation's district | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent scourge=Theme |
| 4 | **disappear** | would | the scourge | the hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **vow** |  |  | the Cross |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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