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title: But those whom he sent found only great forests, and wild beasts, an… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: But those whom he sent found only great forests, and wild beasts, and sav-age In-di-ans. Who acts: Sir. 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 35

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But those whom he sent found only great forests, and wild beasts, and sav-age In-di-ans.

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**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** send, find · **To what, where:** found great forests

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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), 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:pg18442:20:35
# text = But those whom he sent found only great forests, and wild beasts, and sav-age In-di-ans.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	sav	sav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	In	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	di	di	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Sir | found great forests and wild beasts |  |  | sav age in di ans |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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