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title: The inhabitants had made him king, not for the sake of any royal blo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The inhabitants had made him king, not for the sake of any royal blood (for none was in his veins), but because Thasus was an upright, true-hearted, and courageous man, and therefore fit to rule. Who acts: none, Thasus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., pa
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 73

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The inhabitants had made him king, not for the sake of any royal blood (for none was in his veins), but because Thasus was an upright, true-hearted, and courageous man, and therefore fit to rule.

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**Who acts:** none, Thasus · **What happens:** make, be, fit, rule · **To what, where:** inhabitants, upright

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, Thasus), 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:pg976:11:73
# text = The inhabitants had made him king, not for the sake of any royal blood (for none was in his veins), but because Thasus was an upright, true-hearted, and courageous man, and therefore fit to rule.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	in	in	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	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the inhabitants |  |  |  | for the sake of any royal blood | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | none |  |  |  |  | for city's veins | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Thasus | a upright |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fit** | present |  |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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