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title: The expedient by which Ulysses outwits Polyphemus in the Odyssey by… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The expedient by which Ulysses outwits Polyphemus in the Odyssey by calling himself [Greek: outis] is clearly of the same order. Who acts: Ulysses, expedient. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 11

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The expedient by which Ulysses outwits Polyphemus in the Odyssey by calling himself \[Greek: outis\] is clearly of the same order.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, expedient · **What happens:** outwit, call, be · **To what, where:** Polyphemus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, expedient), 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:pg14241:38:11
# text = The expedient by which Ulysses outwits Polyphemus in the Odyssey by calling himself [Greek: outis] is clearly of the same order.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	expedient	expedient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	outwits	outwit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	outis	outis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outwit** | present | Ulysses | Polyphemus |  |  |  | by the expedient; in the Odyssey | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot polyphemus=Theme in odyssey=Attribute |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Ulysses *not said here* | Polyphemus |  |  |  | greek *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the expedient |  |  |  |  | of the same order; clearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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