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title: Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King Aegeus, who were the own cous… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King Aegeus, who were the own cousins of Theseus, at once became his enemies. Who acts: King Aegeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 94

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Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King Aegeus, who were the own cousins of Theseus, at once became his enemies.

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**Who acts:** King Aegeus · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** own cousins, enemies

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (King Aegeus), 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:pg976:3:94
# text = Thus these bad-hearted nephews of King Aegeus, who were the own cousins of Theseus, at once became his enemies.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nephews	nephew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | King Aegeus and the own cousins | the own cousins |  |  |  | of Theseus | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past |  | Theseus's enemies |  |  |  | once *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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