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title: Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs contained in the _Hamâsa_ wou… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs contained in the _Hamâsa_ would be unintelligible without accompanying narrative, which is nowadays preserved in the commentary. Who acts: Many, Hamâsa. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 39

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Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs contained in the \_Hamâsa\_ would be unintelligible without accompanying narrative, which is nowadays preserved in the commentary.

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**Who acts:** Many, Hamâsa · **What happens:** contain, be, accompany, preserve, verse · **To what, where:** narrative, commentary, Arabs

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, Hamâsa), 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:pg7439:71:39
# text = Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs contained in the _Hamâsa_ would be unintelligible without accompanying narrative, which is nowadays preserved in the commentary.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Hamâsa	Hamâsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	commentary	commentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past | Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | would | Hamâsa |  |  |  |  | unintelligible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accompany** | gerund | Hamâsa *not said here* | narrative |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Theme |
| 4 | **preserve** | present · passive |  | narrative |  | the commentary |  | nowadays *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **verse** |  |  | the Arabs |  |  |  |  | nom verse «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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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