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title: He was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much for our national… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much for our national rights and immunities as for his own personal ones. Who acts: Antaeus, faithful ally. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 11

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He was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much for our national rights and immunities as for his own personal ones.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, faithful ally · **What happens:** be, fall, fight · **To what, where:** faithful ally

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antaeus, faithful ally), 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:pg976:9:11
# text = He was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much for our national rights and immunities as for his own personal ones.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ally	ally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	immunities	immunity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Antaeus | our faithful ally |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | our faithful ally *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | our faithful ally *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for our national rights and immunities; for Antaeus's own personal ones | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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