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title: The little vessel, with brave Sir Humphrey and all his brave men, wa… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The little vessel, with brave Sir Humphrey and all his brave men, was swal-lowed up by the waves. Who acts: waves. 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 20

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The little vessel, with brave Sir Humphrey and all his brave men, was swal-lowed up by the waves.

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**Who acts:** waves · **What happens:** low up · **To what, where:** little vessel

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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 (waves), 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:pg18442:19:20
# text = The little vessel, with brave Sir Humphrey and all his brave men, was swal-lowed up by the waves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
16	swal	swal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	lowed	low	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **low up** | past · passive | the waves | the little vessel |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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