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title: He was, indeed, a rude, lawless fellow; but at that time, people did… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was, indeed, a rude, lawless fellow; but at that time, people did not think of right and wrong as they do now. Who acts: Robin, people. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 14

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He was, indeed, a rude, lawless fellow; but at that time, people did not think of right and wrong as they do now.

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**Who acts:** Robin, people · **What happens:** be, not think, do · **To what, where:** rude lawless fellow

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robin, people), 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:pg18442:11:14
# text = He was, indeed, a rude, lawless fellow; but at that time, people did not think of right and wrong as they do now.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Robin | a rude lawless fellow |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | people |  |  |  | time | right *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | people |  |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «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:** «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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