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title: At last Sir Walter gave up trying to get people to come to America. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Sir Walter gave up trying to get people to come to America. Who acts: Walter, people. 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 37

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At last Sir Walter gave up trying to get people to come to America.

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**Who acts:** Walter, people · **What happens:** give up, try, get, come · **To what, where:** people, 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 (Walter, people), 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:pg18442:20:37
# text = At last Sir Walter gave up trying to get people to come to America.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | Walter |  |  |  |  | at last Sir | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | Walter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Walter *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | America |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to america=Initial\_Location |

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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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