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title: "Well," answered the shepherd, "you know that everybody says that I… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," answered the shepherd, "you know that everybody says that I look just like you, and that I have some-times been mis-tak-en for you. Who acts: shepherd, you, everybody, times. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers., with its dependency tree and th
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 9

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"Well," answered the shepherd, "you know that everybody says that I look just like you, and that I have some-times been mis-tak-en for you.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, you, everybody, times · **What happens:** answer, know, say, look, have, be · **To what, where:** some, mis tak en · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you, everybody, times), 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:pg18442:10:9
# text = "Well," answered the shepherd, "you know that everybody says that I look just like you, and that I have some-times been mis-tak-en for you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
30	mis	mis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tak	tak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the shepherd *= shepherd* |  |  |  |  | like you | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the shepherd *= shepherd* | some |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle | times | mis tak en |  |  |  | for you | 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:** «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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