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title: As for the woman and her child, the Black Douglas would not suffer a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the woman and her child, the Black Douglas would not suffer any one to harm them. Who acts: Black Douglas. 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 35

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As for the woman and her child, the Black Douglas would not suffer any one to harm them.

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**Who acts:** Black Douglas · **What happens:** not suffer, harm · **To what, where:** one, Women

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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 (Black Douglas), 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:pg18442:13:35
# text = As for the woman and her child, the Black Douglas would not suffer any one to harm them.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suffer** | would | the Black Douglas | any one |  |  |  | as the woman and right's child | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **harm** | to-infinitive | the Black Douglas *not said here* | Women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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