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title: When Sir Humphrey made his first voy-age to America, Sir Walter was… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: When Sir Humphrey made his first voy-age to America, Sir Walter was with him. Who acts: Sir, Walter. 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 33

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When Sir Humphrey made his first voy-age to America, Sir Walter was with him.

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**Who acts:** Sir, Walter · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** first voy age, America

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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 (Sir, Walter), 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:pg18442:20:33
# text = When Sir Humphrey made his first voy-age to America, Sir Walter was with him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	voy	voy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Sir | Sir's first voy age | America |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | Walter  Sir |  |  |  |  | with Sir | 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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