--- title: Yonder lies Antaeus, our great friend and brother, slain, within our… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Yonder lies Antaeus, our great friend and brother, slain, within our territory, by a miscreant who took him at disadvantage, and fought him (if fighting it can be called) in a way that neither man, nor Giant, nor Pygmy ever dreamed of fighting, until this hour. Who acts: miscreant, way, Pygmy. 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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 (miscreant, way, Pygmy), 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:pg976:9:7 # text = Yonder lies Antaeus, our great friend and brother, slain, within our territory, by a miscreant who took him at disadvantage, and fought him (if fighting it can be called) in a way that neither man, nor Giant, nor Pygmy ever dreamed of fighting, until this hour. 1 Yonder yonder ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Antaeus Antaeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 slain slain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 within within ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 miscreant miscreant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 disadvantage disadvantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 41 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 45 cc _ _ 45 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 50 cc _ _ 48 Pygmy Pygmy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 50 advmod _ _ 50 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 51 of of SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 52 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 until until ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 56 det _ _ 56 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | | Antaeus | | | | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antaeus=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | a miscreant | Antaeus | | disadvantage | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at disadvantage=Asset | | 3 | **fight** | past | | Antaeus | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **fight** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | can · passive | | insult | | a way | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **man** | | a way | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **dream** | past | Pygmy | | | | ever | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **fight** | gerund | Pygmy *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/8/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/)