--- title: King Cyzicus hereupon informed them that he and his subjects were gr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: King Cyzicus hereupon informed them that he and his subjects were greatly abused and incommoded by the inhabitants of a neighboring mountain, who made war upon them, and killed many people, and ravaged the country. Who acts: King hereupon, neighboring mountain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King hereupon, neighboring mountain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:27:39 # text = King Cyzicus hereupon informed them that he and his subjects were greatly abused and incommoded by the inhabitants of a neighboring mountain, who made war upon them, and killed many people, and ravaged the country. 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 Cyzicus Cyzicus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 hereupon hereupon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 informed inform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 12 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 abused abuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 incommoded incommode VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 neighboring neighbor VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 ravaged ravage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | King hereupon | | Argonauts *= argonaut* | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **abuse** | past · passive | | hereupon | | | | greatly *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **incommode** | participle | | | | | | by the inhabitants of a neighboring mountain | tree rules | | 4 | **neighbor** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | a neighboring mountain | war | | | | upon Argonauts *= argonaut* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product | | 6 | **kill** | past | | many people | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 7 | **ravage** | past | | the country | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/40/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/)