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title: He had need to be both brave and wise, for the times in which he liv… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He had need to be both brave and wise, for the times in which he lived were wild and rude. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 2

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He had need to be both brave and wise, for the times in which he lived were wild and rude.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** need, be, live

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg18442:12:2
# text = He had need to be both brave and wise, for the times in which he lived were wild and rude.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	had	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | king |  |  |  | in the times |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  | time | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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