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title: What a brave, noble man he was! — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: What a brave, noble man he was! A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 18

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What a brave, noble man he was!

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg18442:17:18
# text = What a brave, noble man he was!
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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