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title: Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert about whom I have alread… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert about whom I have already told you, were half-broth-ers. Who acts: Gilbert. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 32

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Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert about whom I have already told you, were half-broth-ers.

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**Who acts:** Gilbert · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** I, you, half broth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gilbert), 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:pg18442:20:32
# text = Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert about whom I have already told you, were half-broth-ers.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Raleigh	Raleigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Gilbert	gilbert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ers	er	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | I | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Walter  Sir and Sir's Gilbert about half broth and ers | half broth and ers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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