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title: He came to this country many years ago, when there were great woods… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He came to this country many years ago, when there were great woods everywhere, and many wild beasts and Indians. Who acts: man. 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 56

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He came to this country many years ago, when there were great woods everywhere, and many wild beasts and Indians.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** many wild beasts, country

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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 (man), 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:pg18442:20:56
# text = He came to this country many years ago, when there were great woods everywhere, and many wild beasts and Indians.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | man | many wild beasts and Indians |  | this country |  | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | 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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