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title: Seven cities contended for the honor of giving birth to Homer--that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven cities contended for the honor of giving birth to Homer--that is to say, they contended after his death! Who acts: honor, that, cities, Homer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 13

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Seven cities contended for the honor of giving birth to Homer--that is to say, they contended after his death!

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**Who acts:** honor, that, cities, Homer · **What happens:** contend, give, be, die · **To what, where:** Seven cities, birth, Homer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honor, that, cities, Homer), 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:pg27200:190:13
# text = Seven cities contended for the honor of giving birth to Homer--that is to say, they contended after his death!
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	contended	contend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	contended	contend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contend** | participle |  | Seven cities *not said here* |  |  |  | for the honor | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the honor *not said here* | birth | Homer |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to homer=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **contend** | past | cities *= city* |  |  |  | after Homer's death |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** |  | Homer |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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