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title: At Jason's request, Argus readily consented to build him a galley so… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At Jason's request, Argus readily consented to build him a galley so big that it should require fifty strong men to row it; although no vessel of such a size and burden had heretofore been seen in the world. Who acts: Argus, galley, Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 76

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At Jason's request, Argus readily consented to build him a galley so big that it should require fifty strong men to row it; although no vessel of such a size and burden had heretofore been seen in the world.

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**Who acts:** Argus, galley, Jason · **What happens:** consent, build, require, row, see, request · **To what, where:** request, galley, Argus, fifty strong men, vessel, world

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (Argus, galley, Jason), 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:pg976:26:76
# text = At Jason's request, Argus readily consented to build him a galley so big that it should require fifty strong men to row it; although no vessel of such a size and burden had heretofore been seen in the world.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Argus	Argus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	heretofore	heretofore	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | Argus |  |  | Jason's request |  | readily *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | Argus *not said here* | a galley | Argus |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary galley=Product |
| 3 | **require** | should | galley | fifty strong men |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Precondition |
| 4 | **row** | to-infinitive | galley *not said here* | galley |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | no vessel of such size and burden |  | the world |  | heretofore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **request** |  | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: 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:** «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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