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title: What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed? — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed? Who acts: kings. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 50

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What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed?

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**Who acts:** kings · **What happens:** be, make, save, succor, distress · **To what, where:** kings, feeble

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings), 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:pg976:25:50
# text = What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	succor	succor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	distressed	distress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | kings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **succor** | to-infinitive | kings *not said here* | the feeble |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeble=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **distress** | participle | kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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