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title: "I envy no-body--no, not I!-- For I am as happy as I can be; And nob… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "I envy no-body--no, not I!-- For I am as happy as I can be; And nobody envies me." Who acts: miller, nobody. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 8

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"I envy no-body--no, not I!-- For I am as happy as I can be; And nobody envies me."

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**Who acts:** miller, nobody · **What happens:** envy, be · **To what, where:** body, miller

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, nobody), 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:pg18442:16:8
# text = "I envy no-body--no, not I!-- For I am as happy as I can be; And nobody envies me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	envy	envy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
26	envies	envy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	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 | **envy** *in a quote* | present | the miller *= miller* | no body |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the miller *= miller* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **envy** *in a quote* | present | nobody | the miller *= miller* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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