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title: It is strange that you will never learn wisdom.--Come here, Peter, a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It is strange that you will never learn wisdom.--Come here, Peter, and help me lay my sack on my shoul-der." Who acts: ing, you, me. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 23

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It is strange that you will never learn wisdom.--Come here, Peter, and help me lay my sack on my shoul-der."

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**Who acts:** ing, you, me · **What happens:** be, not learn, come, help, lay · **To what, where:** wisdom, me, sack, shoul der · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ing, you, me), 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:pg18442:14:23
# text = It is strange that you will never learn wisdom.--Come here, Peter, and help me lay my sack on my shoul-der."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shoul	shoul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ing |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **learn** | future | you | wisdom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | Peter *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my sack |  | my shoul der |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on der=Destination |

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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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