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title: Antaeus could not endure to have it said that any mortal was half so… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Antaeus could not endure to have it said that any mortal was half so mighty as himself. Who acts: Antaeus, mortal. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 35

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Antaeus could not endure to have it said that any mortal was half so mighty as himself.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, mortal · **What happens:** not endure, have, say, be · **To what, where:** shoulder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 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 (Antaeus, mortal), 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:pg976:8:35
# text = Antaeus could not endure to have it said that any mortal was half so mighty as himself.
1	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **endure** | could | Antaeus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* | shoulder |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | any mortal |  |  |  |  | as Antaeus; half, mighty *property* | tree rules |

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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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