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title: Socrates and his House — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Socrates and his House A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Opening, sentence 46

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Socrates and his House

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg18442:1:46
# text = Socrates and his House
1	Socrates	socrates	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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