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title: Twice did he bring men and ships over the sea, and twice did he fail… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Twice did he bring men and ships over the sea, and twice did he fail, and sail back for England. Who acts: 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 5

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Twice did he bring men and ships over the sea, and twice did he fail, and sail back for England.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** bring, fail, sail back · **To what, where:** men, sea

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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 (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:pg18442:19:5
# text = Twice did he bring men and ships over the sea, and twice did he fail, and sail back for England.
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · do-support | Sir |  | men and ships | the sea |  | twice *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 2 | **fail** | past · do-support | Sir |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sail back** | infinitive | Sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for England | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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