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title: The sun shone down without pity on the wounded soldiers lying in the… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun shone down without pity on the wounded soldiers lying in the blood and dust. Who acts: wounded soldiers. 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 4

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The sun shone down without pity on the wounded soldiers lying in the blood and dust.

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**Who acts:** wounded soldiers · **What happens:** shine down, lie · **To what, where:** sun, wounded soldiers, blood

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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: who acts (wounded soldiers), 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:pg18442:17:4
# text = The sun shone down without pity on the wounded soldiers lying in the blood and dust.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine down** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  | the wounded soldiers |  | without pity | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soldier=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | the wounded soldiers *not said here* |  |  | the blood and dust |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in blood=Location |

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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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