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title: She was not afraid, for in the dark-en-ing twi-light they looked ind… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: She was not afraid, for in the dark-en-ing twi-light they looked indeed like cattle. Who acts: care, objects. 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 26

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She was not afraid, for in the dark-en-ing twi-light they looked indeed like cattle.

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**Who acts:** care, objects · **What happens:** not be, e, look · **To what, where:** ing twi light

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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 (care, objects), 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:pg18442:13:26
# text = She was not afraid, for in the dark-en-ing twi-light they looked indeed like cattle.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ing	e	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
14	twi	twi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | care |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **e** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | objects *= object* | the ing twi light *not said here* |  |  |  | like cattle; indeed *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Attribute |

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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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