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title: Over his shepherd's coat he threw the abbot's long gown, and he bor-… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Over his shepherd's coat he threw the abbot's long gown, and he bor-rowed the abbot's cap and golden staff. Who acts: shepherd. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 17

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Over his shepherd's coat he threw the abbot's long gown, and he bor-rowed the abbot's cap and golden staff.

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**Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** throw, row · **To what, where:** long gown, coat, cap

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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:pg18442:10:17
# text = Over his shepherd's coat he threw the abbot's long gown, and he bor-rowed the abbot's cap and golden staff.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	abbot	abbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	bor	bor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	rowed	row	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	abbot	abbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | shepherd | the abbot's long gown |  | shepherd's shepherd's coat |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent gown=Theme over coat=Destination |
| 2 | **row** | participle | shepherd | the abbot's cap and golden staff |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cap=Location |

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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:** «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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