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title: But Cadmus was more fortunate than many others who went to Delphi in… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Cadmus was more fortunate than many others who went to Delphi in search of truth. Who acts: Cadmus, many others. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 26

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But Cadmus was more fortunate than many others who went to Delphi in search of truth.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, many others · **What happens:** be, go, search · **To what, where:** Delphi, search, truth

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, many others), 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:pg976:12:26
# text = But Cadmus was more fortunate than many others who went to Delphi in search of truth.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | than many others; fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | many others |  | Delphi | search of truth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to delphi=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | truth |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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:** «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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