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title: _--The reference to venison warrants, and bows and arrows seems to a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The reference to venison warrants, and bows and arrows seems to argue considerable antiquity for this piece of nonsense. Who acts: bows. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LI. Sir Gammer Vans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LI. Sir Gammer Vans, sentence 13

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\_--The reference to venison warrants, and bows and arrows seems to argue considerable antiquity for this piece of nonsense.

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**Who acts:** bows · **What happens:** seem, argue · **To what, where:** considerable antiquity

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LI. Sir Gammer Vans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bows), 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:pg14241:42:13
# text = _--The reference to venison warrants, and bows and arrows seems to argue considerable antiquity for this piece of nonsense.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	warrants	warrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | bows and arrows |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | bows and arrows *not said here* | considerable antiquity |  |  |  | for this piece of nonsense | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent antiquity=Topic |

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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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