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title: After that, Sir Walter tried sev-er-al times to send men to this cou… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: After that, Sir Walter tried sev-er-al times to send men to this country to make a set-tle-ment. Who acts: 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 34

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After that, Sir Walter tried sev-er-al times to send men to this country to make a set-tle-ment.

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**Who acts:** Walter · **What happens:** try, send, make · **To what, where:** men, country, tle ment

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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 (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:pg18442:20:34
# text = After that, Sir Walter tried sev-er-al times to send men to this country to make a set-tle-ment.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sev	sev	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	al	al	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tle	tle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	ment	ment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Walter  Sir |  |  |  | after that; time |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Walter  Sir *not said here* | men |  | this country |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to country=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Walter  Sir *not said here* | a tle ment |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ment=Product |

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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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