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title: Many a man has been punished because he was wise, but I have never h… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a man has been punished because he was wise, but I have never heard of any one being harmed because he was a fool. Who acts: Dobbin, I. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 23

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Many a man has been punished because he was wise, but I have never heard of any one being harmed because he was a fool.

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**Who acts:** Dobbin, I · **What happens:** punish, be, not hear, harm · **To what, where:** Many man, one, fool

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise 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 (Dobbin, I), 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:pg18442:15:23
# text = Many a man has been punished because he was wise, but I have never heard of any one being harmed because he was a fool.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | present · perfect · passive |  | a Many man |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Dobbin |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | of any one | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **harm** | gerund · passive |  | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Dobbin | a fool |  |  |  |  | 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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