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title: The men on the "Hind" saw Sir Humphrey sitting on the deck of the "S… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The men on the "Hind" saw Sir Humphrey sitting on the deck of the "Squirrel" with an open book in his hand. Who acts: men, Sir. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 13

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The men on the "Hind" saw Sir Humphrey sitting on the deck of the "Squirrel" with an open book in his hand.

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**Who acts:** men, Sir · **What happens:** see, sit · **To what, where:** Sir, deck

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Sir), 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:pg18442:19:13
# text = The men on the "Hind" saw Sir Humphrey sitting on the deck of the "Squirrel" with an open book in his hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the men on the Hind | Sir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Sir *not said here* |  |  | the deck of the Squirrel |  | with a open book in man's hand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=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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