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title: In Scotland, in the time of King Robert Bruce, there lived a brave m… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: In Scotland, in the time of King Robert Bruce, there lived a brave man whose name was Doug-las. Who acts: brave man, Doug las. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 1

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In Scotland, in the time of King Robert Bruce, there lived a brave man whose name was Doug-las.

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**Who acts:** brave man, Doug las · **What happens:** live, be, name · **To what, where:** Scotland, Doug las

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave man, Doug las), 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:pg18442:13:1
# text = In Scotland, in the time of King Robert Bruce, there lived a brave man whose name was Doug-las.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	Doug	Doug	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | Scotland; there | time |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a brave man | Doug las |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Doug las |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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